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#3 · 17 August 2026 · 28:08

#3 - Thirty Claimed. Three Real.

SAP says its AI makes you thirty percent more productive. Three percent of SAP's own customers have it running in production. That gap — between what gets claimed and what gets measured — is the whole episode. Today is not about whether AI works. It does. It is about the distance between the promise and the proof.


📊 02:07 — SAP and the three percent. Joule is now the front door to SAP — 40+ agents, 2,000+ skills. Gartner expects 40% of enterprise apps to include agents by year-end. SAP's own DACH user group went and asked the customers.

🇨🇳 05:56 — China writes Nvidia out of the room. A five-year, $295 billion plan for a domestic AI computing grid — and what it means when a market decides it does not need you.

🇫🇷 09:14 — Mistral. Around $400m in annual recurring revenue, the CEO expecting a billion within six months — and open-weight models you can download and run yourself.

🚆 13:00 — Deutsche Bahn runs an AI making 150 million predictions a day. And the trains are still late. Both things are true, and that is the interesting part.

📞 16:59 — Deutsche Telekom's CEO said in May that 95% of their code is written by AI. In July, an independent report put it at 10%.

🧬 19:11 — BioNTech, InstaDeep and a melanoma vaccine: an 18.1% response rate against a 10% historical control, in the hardest patient group there is.

🤖 22:34 — A German city put delivery robots on the pavement. Nobody crashed into one. Children asked for them by name. They switched it off.

🎯 25:28 — Three things for Monday.

🧠 27:14 — What all of it has in common.


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