The Financial Express

Explainer: How Claude Code threatens to disrupt IBM’s mainframe biz

On3, 2026, Anthropic unveiled Claude Code, an AI tool capable of modernizing decades-old COBOL systems in months rather than years.
CIO

Anthropic’s claim that AI can quickly refactor COBOL rattles IBM investors

Investors reacted to Anthropic’s assertion that Claude Code could streamline legacy COBOL modernization, raising concerns about pressure on IBM’s high‑margin mainframe services despite longstanding ...

IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat

COBOL is a computer language used for business data processing and IBM is a leader in that area.

IBM's Anthropic-induced sell-off overlooks the fact it's disrupting itself: Jefferies

IBM (IBM) shares sold off on Monday on the basis that Anthropic's (ANTHRO) Claude Code product can translate COBOL, prompting concern about the tech giant's legacy business. However, investment firm ...

IBM stock falls after Anthropic says AI can now modernize old software

IBM still profits from mainframes running decades-old COBOL systems. Anthropic says AI can migrate that software elsewhere.
domain-b.com

The mainframe moment: how AI-driven modernization is reshaping the COBOL economy

New AI coding tools are accelerating legacy system modernization, raising opportunities and risks for banks, enterprises, and ...

Izzi Software Unveils New Brand, Launches z/XDC on Visual Studio Code to Modernize Mainframe Debugging and Accelerate Adoption

Izzi Software, owner of ColeSoft, the leading provider of debugging solutions for IBM mainframe environments, announces the ...
Malay Mail

IBM shares hit 25-year low as AI promises to update ageing mainframe code

Shares of International Business Machines recorded their steepest daily drop in more than 25 years on Monday, after AI startup Anthropic said its Claude ...
KOIN 6

Open Mainframe Project Redefines Developer Experience on the Mainframe with AI and Open Source Community

Specifically with mainframes, LLMs perform comparatively poorly at reading and writing mainframe code because there is very little data for them to train on. Zorse aims to solve these challenges by ...