OpenAI says its models can help banks migrate from old COBOL programs

OpenAI says its models now come with better COBOL capabilities.
The Cryptonomist

GPT-6 legacy programming improves as GPT-6.1 Sol scores 97.9% on COBOL test

OpenAI reports 87.4% average pass rate on MultiLangBench across 20 languages and 97.9% COBOL migration accuracy for GPT-6.1 ...

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 ...

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 ...
PR Newswire

SQLite's Official Encryption Now Available in Ready-to-Use Packages

For the first time, the official SQLite Encryption Extension (SEE) is available in ready-to-use packages across all major ...
mezha

OpenAI has trained an AI to rewrite outdated programs with 97.9% accuracy

OpenAI announced significant performance improvements in its models for programming languages with relatively little code and ...

[Programming Part 01] In the AI era, which programming language should you study first?

When aiming to become an engineer from scratch, one of the first things you worry about is "Which programming language should ...
letsdatascience

OpenAI Reports GPT-6 Astra Gains in COBOL and Fortran

OpenAI said on October 19, 2026 that its latest models are much better at writing and migrating code in low-resource ...
THE DECODER

OpenAI says GPT-6 is much better with legacy programming languages such as COBOL and Fortran

OpenAI improved its latest models for low-resource programming languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic. On the new MultiLangBench, GPT-6 Astra hits an 87.4 percent test pass rate across 20 ...
BIOENGINEER

How 32 Bits Could Standardize Seizure Classification in Medical Software

Researchers have proposed an open, bitfield-based numerical encoding that fits the entire ILAE 2025 seizure classification ...
Mezha

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol is dramatically better at migrating legacy code

OpenAI reports gains in both a 20-language coding benchmark and tests of COBOL migration, while noting that production ...
Developer Tech

OpenAI reports 87.4% MultiLangBench pass rate for GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI reports an 87.4% average test pass rate for GPT-6 Astra on MultiLangBench, its new 20-language COBOL and Fortran ...