Hopper wanted everyday businessfolk to be able to write—or at least read—code. Her innovations were later folded into COBOL, the language of banking and backend systems.

Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now write and run JavaScript code. Today, Anthropic launched a new analysis tool that helps Claude respond with what the company describes as “mathematically ...

Developers generate huge quantities of code, but what could they do if Xcode became smart enough to handle basic code-writing tasks and monitor for errors in existing instructions? The model could ...