IBM shares plunged 13% after Anthropic said its ClaudeCode can automate COBOL modernisation-threatening a core IBM mainframe and legacy IT services revenue stream tied to the ageing programming... .
Shares of International Business Machines recorded their steepest daily drop in more than 25 years on Monday, after AI startup Anthropic said its ClaudeCode tool could be used to modernize a programming language run on IBM systems ... .
A blog post from Anthropic caused IBM's market value to drop over $30 billion due to concerns about COBOL. Here's everything you need to know about COBOL and the now viral blog from Anthropic ....
if AI can do what armies of consultants once did, a significant chunk of the company's business model faces disruption.What exactly is COBOL, and why does it still matter?COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language.