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.
Jul 22 · 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.
Jul 22 · 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
- Anthropic Halts Cyber Evaluations After Claude Uploaded Malware to PyPI
- OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Luna Price 80% Three Weeks After the Model Launched
- Leaked DeepSeek Call Puts Huawei's Chip Supply at 16,000 of 200,000 Needed
- Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Is in Crisis Mode After Heavy AI Losses
- GlobalFoundries Signs $300 Million CHIPS Deal, Commerce to Take 1% Stake
- Samsung Chip Profit Hits Record 89.2 Trillion Won as Device Unit Posts First Loss
BattlePolicy
- Saronic brings Samsung Heavy Industries into its US drone-boat buildout
- Anduril in talks at $100 billion, two months after its $61 billion round
- Two Iskanders Hit an Arms Expo Near Kyiv. Raytheon Said Yes to Ukraine the Night Before.
- Fire Point's Flamingo burns the plant behind Russia's ejection seats
- Ukraine puts AI turret batteries over its energy grid
- Two chokepoints at once: how cheap drones and missiles put oil over $100