IBM stock dives after Anthropic points out AI can rewrite COBOL fast
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Feb 23, 2026
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Big Blue has been saying this itself since 2013
IBM’s share price slumped by 13 percent on Monday, seemingly caused by investors reacting to an Anthropic blog post that points out its Claude Code tools can accelerate refactoring of apps written in the ancient COBOL language.
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