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
- Anthropic Cuts OpenClaw From Claude Subscriptions, Citing Unsustainable Compute Costs
- Anthropic Files to Form AnthroPAC as AI Midterm Spending Tops $300 Million
- OPINION: OpenAI Bought Its Interviewer. Call That What It Is.
- Forty Models Ranked. Arcee Undercuts Claude. OpenAI Buys the Camera.
- Implicator.ai Launches the AI Top 40, Ranking LLMs Across 10 Benchmarks in One Score
- Arcee AI Releases 400B Open Reasoning Model That Rivals Claude at 96% Lower Cost
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