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N° 01"89% of small businesses already use AI." The real EU number is 17%. Who is right?
One number circulates on LinkedIn, another sits in a Eurostat table. Nobody is lying. Each answers a different question. And the third one, 4.1%, decides whether your company actually uses AI or only tried it once.
Both numbers are true and they measure different things. Nearly 89% is a US self-report about any use of an AI tool. For 2025 Eurostat says 17.0% of small firms in the EU use at least one AI technology, and 15.6% in Slovakia. Of those firms, 4.1% automate a workflow with AI.
The 89% figure is not a lie. It is the answer to a different question than the one you are asking.Read the dispatch ▸
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