What is COBOL, the high-level programming language that is behind biggest-ever fall in IBM stock value

AI startup Anthropic's claim of automating COBOL modernization sent IBM's stock plummeting, wiping billions off its market value. The decades-old language, still powering critical systems, faces a ...

Anthropic’s COBOL tool triggers worst single-day drop in 25 years in IBM's stock price: What it is and why it wiped billions of dollar for IBM

IBM shares plummeted after AI startup Anthropic announced its tool can automate COBOL modernization, threatening IBM's core ...
Securities.io

Anthropic’s Claude Code vs COBOL: IBM Investors React

While Anthropic’s Claude Code grabbed headlines, IBM has been deploying its own generative AI solution, Watsonx Code Assistant for Z, designed to modernize the very mainframes it built. Unlike general ...

Anthropic Vs. IBM: AI Starts To Threaten Businesses (Rating Downgrade)

International Business Machines Corporation stock plunges; downgrade IBM to Hold as Anthropic's Claude Code threatens ...
MIT Technology Review

Just pull a string to turn these tile patterns into useful 3D structures

Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.
eLife

TAD boundary architecture and gene activity are uncoupled

A proposed function of TADs is to contribute to gene regulation by promoting chromatin interactions within a TAD and by suppressing interactions between TADs. Here, we directly probe the ...
BMJ Open

Association between maternal age at childbirth and children’s internalising problems in the USA: a cross-sectional mediation analysis of housing instability and family ...

Objectives The optimal maternal age at childbirth has been a topic of bourgeoning literature, with earlier ages offering physiological benefits for maternal recovery. In contrast, later ages to give ...