IBM’s $40B stock wipeout is built on a misconception: Translating COBOL isn’t the same as modernizing it
via claude.com
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On Tuesday, Anthropic published tools that let Claude read, analyze and translate legacy COBOL into modern languages like Java and Python. By the end of the trading day, investors had wiped roughly $40 billion from IBM’s market cap — the company’s biggest single-day drop in 25 years — pricing the announcement as an existential threat […]