The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove.

Anthropic’s AI-powered computing-coding agent Claude appears easily capable of competing with one of IBM’s core businesses. Worries of this threat sent IBM stock careening on Monday. A deeper dive ...

COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language and was created in 1959. It was partly drawn on the work of computing pioneer Grace Hopper and was built for a single purpose: processing business ...

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Anthropic’s announcement that its updated AI tool can modernise COBOL, an old programming language that runs on IBM’s mainframes, left Big Blue’s stocks battered on Monday. Banasree Purkayastha looks ...

Industry leaders say Anthropic’s advances in automating COBOL code could lower migration costs and create new opportunities for IT service firms. HCLTech CEO C Vijayakumar noted modernising mainframes ...

IBM shares climbed about 5.2% by 10:50 a.m. ET on Tuesday, bouncing back after a heavy fall on Monday. The drop happened after Anthropic said its Claude Code tool can help modernise old COBOL systems, ...

Investors reacted to Anthropic’s assertion that Claude Code could streamline legacy COBOL modernization, raising concerns about pressure on IBM’s high‑margin mainframe services despite longstanding ...

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