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 Cuts Current Claude Code Weekly Limits 17% on September 14
- Reframe Systems Raises $40 Million for North American Microfactories
- Apple hands Ternus the CEO job; OpenAI buys Macs Apple cannot sell it
- LLM Meter — Week of Aug 30, 2026
- Apple Has No Enterprise AI Team as OpenAI Buys Tens of Thousands of Macs
- OpenClaw 2.0 Adds Multiplayer Sessions Its Docs Say Are Not a Security Boundary

BattlePolicy
- Europe Signed €7.3 Billion of Air Defense on Monday. None of It Reaches Ukraine This Winter.
- Japan Wants an AI Orchestrator and Underwater Attack Drones. Its Drone Market Runs on Chinese Imports.
- The Pentagon Put Three AI Vendors on One Platform. Their Terms Are Not the Same.
- Israel Signs €3 Billion Achilles Shield Deal, Its First Export of a Complete Air-Defense Array
- Zelensky Orders 1,000 Drones a Day as Russian Refining Hits a 20-Year Low
- Heaviside Industries