OpenAI says its models now come with better COBOL capabilities.

On October 19, 2026, an announcement posted by OpenAI on X caught my eye. It stated that the latest AI models are now capable ...

According to OpenAI via its blog and X post, its latest model advances improve building and migrating software in COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic to ...

When asking AI to write code, it works well with Python or JavaScript, but it can suddenly become unreliable with older or ...

The COBOL programming language's main strength is its ability to write a wide variety of data files useful for small business, including Microsoft Excel. Organizing the file as a comma-separated value ...

OpenAI today announced GPT‑6 Astra, an AI coding model tailored for COBOL, Fotran, Visual Basic, and other older programming ...

Banks, government agencies, and other critical institutions run largely on antiquated programming languages. Can AI help ...

A new deal is available for 96% off the Enterprise COBOL Programming Bundle. This 2 course bundle contains 14 hours of instruction on how to program in Cobol for the enterprise. As shown by recent ...

GPT-6 COBOL migration hits 97.9% behavioral fidelity in OpenAI's latest benchmark, a 16-fold improvement over prior models, but enterprise IT teams should understand the gap between benchmark accuracy ...

While modern programming languages like Java and .NET are widely used, COBOL is still very much alive and -- for some businesses -- here to stay. Similar to other old, imperative languages like ...