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 ...

OpenAI looks to help banks modernise legacy software their operations still depend on

OpenAI has enhanced its models to work with legacy programming languages like COBOL and Fortran. The AI assists companies in ...
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AI's Biggest Software Opportunity Isn't New Apps. It's COBOL.

OpenAI's latest models show 86.6%-97.9% accuracy in COBOL migration, a critical language for 40% of banking systems and 800B ...
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OpenAI upgrades its model for COBOL, Fortran, and other legacy code

OpenAI says its latest model better supports building and migrating COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic code used by banks and ...
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Teaching Novice Computing and Programming in the Agentic AI Era

Yet, instead of celebration, much of the conversation we hear about computing education in the era of AI-programming agents ...