IBM shares dropped 13% on Feb. 23, on fears that Anthropic's Claude Code AI would accelerate COBOL modernization and undermine the mainframe business. AI can help translate legacy code, but it can't ...

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The IBM campus in North Carolina. In late February, the company experienced a stock market shock it hadn’t felt in 25 years. N&O file photo AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI ...

The IBM campus in North Carolina. In late February, the company experienced a stock market shock it hadn’t felt in 25 years. N&O file photo Anthropic’s Claude Code post wiped about $30B off IBM’s ...

When Anthropic published a blog post last week describing how Claude Code can analyze and translate COBOL, the market rejoiced at yet another proof point of the power of LLMs. Critics also reacted ...

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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 ...

IBM’s stock experienced one of its biggest single-day drops on February 24, in over 25 years, due to market concerns about new AI tools (like Anthropic’s Claude Code) that claim they can automate the ...

Mumbai/Bengaluru: Anthropic’s claim that its AI coding tool Claude can understand and modernise programming language Cobol sent IBM shares down 13% on Monday, its steepest single-day fall in over 25 ...

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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