OpenAI announces improved coding capabilities in low-resource languages (COBOL, Fortran, etc.). COBOL migration accuracy increases from 5.4% to 86.6%

On October 19, 2026, OpenAI's official website announced an initiative to improve coding capabilities in "programming ...
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PySR 2 Arrives After Two-Year Overhaul, Promising a PyTorch for Symbolic Learning

Cambridge researcher Miles Cranmer ships the first major release of his equation-discovery library since 2020, adding n-ary operators and a modular plugin system.

OpenAI Enhances Code Generation and Migration Performance for Low-Resource Languages like COBOL, and More | AI News Summary for October 20, 2026

AI news.OpenAI has announced that its latest models have significantly improved performance in programming languages that ...