AI startup Anthropic’s claim of automating COBOL modernization sent IBM’s stock plummeting, wiping billions off its market value. The decades-old language, still powering critical systems, faces a modernization challenge. Anthropic’s tool promises to drastically reduce the time and cost of translating COBOL to modern languages, threatening IBM’s mainframe business model.
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