{
  "id": 15732399,
  "title": "OpenAI says its new models show major performance leaps in low-resource legacy languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic, used by banks and governments (OpenAI)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/openai-says-its-new-models-show-major-performance-leaps-in-low",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-20T09:50:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://openai.com/index/low-resource-programming-languages"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Our latest model advances bring stronger capabilities for building and migrating software in low-resource programming languages such as COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}