Marcus Schuler — AI & Technology Reporter | San Francisco
Hi, I'm Marcus.
- 📰 Covering AI, antitrust, chips, and platforms from San Francisco since 2017
- ✏️ Enterprise features and breaking news for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- 🔗 Founded implicator.ai — daily AI analysis, 20,000 monthly readers, 58% newsletter open rate
- 🎙️ Former ARD West Coast bureau chief — TV, radio, digital, reaching 500K viewers per segment
- 🎤 30+ on-record interviews with CEOs, AI researchers, and founders across the Valley
About me
AI & Technology Reporter · San Francisco
Eight years covering Silicon Valley — first as bureau chief for ARD, Germany's flagship public broadcaster, now as correspondent for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and founder of implicator.ai.
Skills:
- Breaking News & Enterprise Reporting
- AI & Technology Beat
- Source Development
- Editorial Leadership
- Multi-Platform Storytelling
Tools
- Newsletter Publishing
- Podcast & Audio Production
- Video Interviews
- DaVinci Resolve
- Premiere Pro
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Latest Articles
(In German)
Mira Murati Takes On China With Her First Open Model
Mira Murati, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, stands for an approach built on censorship resistance and open licensing — even if her model Inkling still trails Chinese rivals in international comparison.
6 days ago · FAZ
Why the AI Boom Hangs on a Few Bottlenecks
Behind hundreds of models, dozens of data centers, and trillions in capital stands a concentrated supply chain. A handful of companies decide how many advanced chips exist at all — and around 90 percent of the most modern logic chips come from a single island.
6 days ago · FAZ
Why the Biggest AI Customers Now Want to Push Prices Down
Palo Alto chief Nikesh Arora demands that token prices fall to a tenth within two years. Behind the demand stands an industry whose AI bills grow faster than its ability to measure the benefit.
Jul 15 · FAZ
America's Quantum Bet, Europe's Dilemma
The US Commerce Department is handing just over two billion dollars to nine quantum firms and taking equity stakes in return. For the first time, a funding agency becomes a direct co-owner of nine companies. Whether that is legal is disputed in Washington.
Jun 3 · FAZ
Reconnaissance on Six Legs
Stefan Wilhelm turns live cockroaches into military sensors. His company SWARM Biotactics is registered in Kassel, yet part of the workforce operates in California. A paid project with the Bundeswehr is already underway.
May 27 · FAZ
implicator.ai
- China Begins Immersion DUV Production for 2026 Deliveries, Report Says
- Moonshot Releases Kimi K3 Weights as Amodei Rejects Open-Weight Ban
- Nvidia Forms Second AI Security Alliance Without OpenAI, Anthropic or Google
- China Says US AI Firms Distilled Chinese Models, Cites No Evidence
- CXMT Closes Up 466% in Shanghai Debut With No HBM Project in Its Prospectus
- Zeiss Adds 25,000 Square Meters at a Plant That Caps ASML's EUV Output

BattlePolicy
- L3Harris Signs Seven-Year Pentagon Deals to Triple PAC-3 and Quadruple THAAD Motor Output
- Gallatin AI wins DIU contract to run agentic logistics planning for Army Europe and Africa
- Army picks five firms to build robot resupply haulers under Project Sustainment
- Ukraine hits oil sites 1,300 km inside Russia a day after Kyiv resets its deep-strike target list
- Vantor (formerly Maxar Intelligence; legal entity Vantor Holdings, Inc.)
- RTX Corporation