Anthropic's Claude AI Targets IBM's COBOL Business, Causing Investor Concern
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Anthropic's Claude AI is targeting IBM's COBOL business, causing concern among IBM investors. The article discusses how Claude has developed capabilities to work with COBOL, the legacy programming language that powers critical financial systems including 95% of US ATM transactions. IBM's stock reportedly dropped after this announcement, as COBOL maintenance represents a significant revenue stream for IBM. The disruption is described as personal for Anthropic creator Dario Amodei, suggesting a targeted competitive move against IBM's legacy software business.
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Hundreds of billions of lines of COBOL run in production every day, powering critical systems in finance, airlines, and government.
A herd of panicked IBM longs flooded to the Claude blog to read more on what is happening.
Anthropic creator Dario Amodei is making Claude disruption personal...
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