Rather than replacing COBOL systems outright, banks are increasingly building artificial intelligence layers around them. AI tools are being used to interpret legacy code, document system behavior, ...

COBOL — short for common business-oriented language — isn’t going anywhere. Released in 1960 and standardized in 1968, COBOL was developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages to handle ...

"message": "You are given a COBOL program located at /app/src/program.cbl. This program reads input data from /app/src/INPUT.DAT and modifies one or more .DAT files located in the /app/data/ directory ...

Late last month, a large crowd gathered in downtown San Francisco to demand that the AI industry stop developing more powerful bots. Holding signs and banners reading Stop the AI Race and Don’t Build ...

International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) shares took a 13% nosedive on Feb. 23, their worst single-day drop in over 25 years. The culprit? Fears that Anthropic's Claude Code AI would make COBOL ...

Developer, hard gamer, and interplanetary explorer. There can be only one. The week Anthropic's COBOL blog post vaporized $40 billion from IBM's market cap, I was debugging a PIC clause parser. I ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Alibaba's (BABA) cloud unit on Wednesday launched AI coding subscription plans that offer access and the ability to freely switch between four Chinese open-source models—Qwen3.5, GLM-5, MiniMax M2.5, ...

IBM stock fell roughly 13% in Monday's trading in response to concerns that new AI tools could have a disruptive impact on the company. Anthropic is touting Claude Code's ability to modernize COBOL ...

IBM’s (IBM) Software and Chief Commercial Officer, Rob Thomas, wrote in a Monday blog post that translating COBOL code isn’t equivalent to modernizing enterprise systems, emphasizing that platform ...

On Tuesday, Anthropic published tools that let Claude read, analyze and translate legacy COBOL into modern languages like Java and Python. By the end of the trading day, investors had wiped roughly ...