{
  "id": 16608634,
  "title": "Can AI help solve the COBOL code crisis?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/can-ai-help-solve-the-cobol-code-crisis",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-26T13:15:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1018434/cobol-migration-legacy-code-openai-anthropic"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "What do the IRS, banks, airlines, and government infrastructure around the world have in common? They're all running on systems propped up by antique computer code that nobody dares touch, lest everything come crashing down. OpenAI thinks it may have a solution. On October 19th, the company touted \"substantial improvements\" in its latest AI models' […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "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."
}