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Anthropic's new AI tool can write 67-year-old COBOL code, sending 115-year-old IBM's stock tumbling by 13% — IBM stock has worst day in 26 years, down 25% Mo…

Besides being an absolute pain to deal with, they all rely on COBOL and IBM mainframe computers as core infrastructure. The ...

WTF: AI Agent Publicly Attacks Developer After Code Change Rejected

An OpenClaw bot has apparently published a negative blog post about matplotlib developer Scott Shambaugh. Reason: He rejected ...

IBM share price falls 13% as Anthropic says Claude can streamline COBOL code: Why did it trigger crash among Indian IT stocks?

COBOL remains a critical language for many Indian IT companies, particularly those supporting global banking, insurance, and ...
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