COBOL
Coverage of COBOL in the Nexus archive.
- The short seller’s argument nobody on the coming mega IPO roadshow wants you to make
Anthropic and OpenAI are preparing high-valuation IPOs, targeting the top 15% of the AI market focused on enterprises with resources for advanced AI adoption. However, corporate buyers struggle to find ROI due to high costs and viable open-source alternatives, with potential revenue opportunities instead lying in modernizing legacy systems and expanding credit access in developing economies.
- Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL
Hypercubic is launching Hopper, an agentic development environment for mainframes, to bring AI tools to the mainframe and COBOL world. Mainframes still run critical infrastructure in banking, payments, insurance, and more. Hopper combines a real TN3270 terminal, mainframe-aware panels, and an AI agent to operate inside the mainframe environment.