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
More about my work, me and what I read.
Awards & Recognition
Your time
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Implicator Top 40
Opinion (Kommentare)
- Cursor Called It In-House. It Was Built in Beijing.
- Anthropic Drew the Line. Congress Should Have Drawn It First.
- Larry Page's Exit From California Is a Confession, Not a Critique
- Light in Shenzhen, Darkness in Europe
- Let Sacks Cook. America Needs Builders, Not Priests
Meine Woche im Valley (Weekly Column in German)

implicator.ai
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Share Attack Data to Counter Chinese AI Distillation
- Meta Plans to Open-Source New AI Models but Will Keep Its Most Powerful Closed
- Silicon Valley Built Its AI Future in a War Zone. Iran Just Sent the Invoice.
- Spain's Xoople Raises $130 Million to Build a Real-Time AI Data Layer for Earth
- OpenAI's CFO Says No. Claude Loses in Popularity.
- OpenAI CFO Warns Company Isn't Ready for 2026 IPO Amid $600 Billion Spending Plan
Latest Articles
(In German)
Meta's AI Offensive Stalls, Layoffs Loom
Meta is among the most aggressive investors in the global AI boom. But its new flagship model is delayed, internal conflicts are growing, and thousands of jobs may be at risk.
Mar 18 · FAZ
Tax Returns With AI: How Finding Receipts Becomes Child's Play
Open-source software and a small home server turn the annual tax chaos into a searchable spreadsheet. A self-experiment.
Mar 14 · FAZ
$100,000 Per Visa: Trump's Visa Fee Hits Startups Hardest
New fees and a salary-weighted lottery are changing the most important work visa in the United States. Young technology companies in Silicon Valley are hit hardest.
Mar 11 · FAZ
Anthropic Accuses Chinese AI Labs of Data Theft
Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of plundering its language model Claude on an industrial scale: 24,000 fake accounts, more than 16 million queries, answers repurposed as training data.
Feb 25 · FAZ
Germans in Silicon Valley: Sebastian Thrun Taught Cars to Drive
Sebastian Thrun is one of the most influential Germans in Silicon Valley. He helped make Street View a success, co-built a secret Google lab, and raced a robot car through the desert.
Jan 29 · FAZ