OpenAI Says Its Models Can Give the Financial Sector a Coding Makeover

Banks, government agencies, and other critical institutions run largely on antiquated programming languages. Can AI help ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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OpenAI has trained an AI to rewrite outdated programs with 97.9% accuracy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 ...

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

The company’s models are now better at working with COBOL and other old languages.

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 ...

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 ...
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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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Teaching Novice Computing and Programming in the Agentic AI Era

Yet, instead of celebration, much of the conversation we hear about computing education in the era of AI-programming agents ...

Which language should a beginner learn first?

The more I look into it, the less I know what is correct.Have you ever thought about starting programming and searched for "which language is best for beginners"?One article says "Python is for ...