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: Deciphering the Spells Left Behind by Retired COBOL Programmers and Recanting Them in Modern Languages

On October 19, 2026, an announcement posted by OpenAI on X caught my eye. It stated that the latest AI models are now capable ...
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OpenAI models make huge gains in modernizing decades-old software with 97.9% accuracy

OpenAI has reported significant gains in coding across 20 programming languages and migrating legacy software.
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87.4% average across 20 languages in the SQLite implementation test

OpenAI has released results for MultiLangBench, which asks models to build a SQLite-compatible engine in 20 languages, and ...
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Bright Security Introduces STAR Fuzzer, Agentic Fuzzing That Writes Its Own Harnesses and Proves Every Finding

Bright Security Introduces STAR Fuzzer, Agentic Fuzzing That Writes Its Own Harnesses and Proves Every Finding ...

AI makes finding open source flaws easier, so why fixing them remains hard

An IBM and Red Hat report says AI is making vulnerability discovery easier, but patch delays, limited maintainer resources ...