The age-old code that binds our world faces a challenge from AI, but for now, it remains unbroken.

OpenAI thinks it may have a solution. On October 19th, the company touted “substantial improvements” in its latest AI models’ ...

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Pull cash from an ATM and the transaction quite likely runs on a programming language created in 1959, while Eisenhower was ...

Banks, government agencies, and other critical institutions run largely on antiquated programming languages. Can AI help ...

OpenAI said on October 19, 2026 that its latest models are much better at writing and migrating code in low-resource languages such as COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic. In OpenAI's own MultiLangBench ...

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OpenAI reports gains on its own tests for coding in COBOL, Fortran and Visual Basic, plus COBOL migration benchmarks, while ...

The company’s models are now better at working with COBOL and other old languages.

OpenAI has enhanced its models to work with legacy programming languages like COBOL and Fortran. The AI assists companies in ...