IBM's $40B stock wipeout is built on a misconception: Translating COBOL isn't the same as modernizing it

Investors wiped $40 billion from IBM's market cap after Anthropic released COBOL translation tools. Analysts say the market ...
InfoWorld

JetBrains introduces Java to Kotlin converter for Visual Studio Code

Extension that converts individual Java files to Kotlin code aims to ease the transition to Kotlin for Java developers.

IBM's Anthropic-induced sell-off overlooks the fact it's disrupting itself: Jefferies

IBM stock plunged on Claude Code COBOL fears, but Jefferies says IBM’s watsonx is already modernizing mainframes with GenAI—read more now.

The End of Language As We Know It? Scientists Challenge 60 Years of Linguistic Research

An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.
InfoQ

OpenAI Introduces Harness Engineering: Codex Agents Power Large‑Scale Software Development

OpenAI introduces Harness Engineering, an AI-driven methodology where Codex agents generate, test, and deploy a million-line ...
Wall Street Journal

Artificial Intelligence

The AI company said it would alert authorities to the Canadian shooting suspect’s account if it were discovered today. We asked Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei and other AI luminaries about what they ...