Morning Brief — August 05, 2026

It’s the point in the summer when top-floor strategy starts colliding with ground-floor reality. We’re seeing AI in SAP move from slideware to plant floor—and with it, a fresh set of integration and security challenges that demand your attention before the next patching cycle. Let’s unpack what’s critical today.

Platform Updates

The August update for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) has just dropped, delivering refinements to the AI Core runtime and a revamped SAP Build Process Automation cockpit. The most notable change is general availability of the SAP AI Core multi-model endpoint, which now supports chaining foundation model calls directly from CAP services. If your landscape relies on AI Core, this brings down latency for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns, but it also introduces a breaking change: the v2/gateway endpoint is deprecated effective September 15. Action starts now:

• ↳ Audit all AI Core consumers and migrate any v2/gateway calls to the v3 endpoint this week. SAP provides a migration helper CLI bundled in the latest Cloud Foundry buildpack update (see SAP Help Portal, BTP Runtime Release Notes 2408).
• ↳ Validate your trust configurations. The new endpoint requires an OAuth 2.0 client credentials grant with the aicore.inference scope; many test setups still use the deprecated API key method. Non-action means a hard stop mid-September.

Real-world context: [How Salling Group Uses SAP and AI to Improve Everyday Retail]( underscores why these updates matter. The Danish retailer’s deployment of AI-driven demand forecasting on BTP directly leveraged the multi-model endpoint to combine real-time POS data with weather APIs. It’s a production-grade reference architecture—and

References

• How Salling Group Uses SAP and AI to Improve Everyday Retail
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