Wednesday, 25 February, 2026
IBM Market Cap Plunges $30 Billion Following Anthropic’s COBOL Modernization Claim
IBM’s market valuation saw a staggering $30 billion wipeout after Anthropic demonstrated its "Claude Code" tool’s ability to rapidly modernize legacy COBOL systems. For decades, IBM has dominated the high-margin mainframe maintenance sector, but investors now fear AI-driven automation could dismantle this lucrative monopoly. This "code shock" highlights the growing disruption generative AI poses to legacy tech giants.
Read full story at Economic Times