
IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares are tanking 11% on Anthropic programming language threat
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COBOL is a computer language used for business data processing and IBM is a leader in that area.
International Business Machines stock is getting slammed, becoming the latest victim of rapidly developing AI technology, after Anthropic's Claude announced COBOL capabilities.
Shares of IBM fell 11% in Monday afternoon trading after Anthropic outlined a new use case for its Claude Code product: automating the exploration and analysis work that drives most of the complexity in COBOL modernization.
COBOL, short for Common Business-Oriented Language, is a decades-old programming language used widely in business data processing, which is a core business area for IBM. COBOL continues to power systems responsible for large volumes of transactions, including payment processing and retail transaction systems, making it a prime target for cost-efficient AI disruption.













