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Run SWE agents on remote VMs via Agents API

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19 January 2026 17h19

Now you can run many SWE agents like Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and others on remote VMs, managed with a single Agents API released by @blackboxai

AI Agents outsource 🤖 https://t.co/MMUN4SPlwC pic.twitter.com/I0k7v6BDri
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 19 janvier 2026

Now you can run many SWE agents like Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and others on remote VMs, managed with a single Agents API released by @blackboxai AI Agents outsource

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DeepReinforced unveils AI for code optimization

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19 January 2026 16h43

DeepReinforced announced InterX, a new AI system for Deep Code Optimisation based on Reinforcement Learning.

Suitable for optimising:
– CUDA Kernels
– Smart Contract
– SQL queries
– And more! 👀 https://t.co/PzmdOQQSQR pic.twitter.com/H4lBYURcjW
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 19 janvier 2026

DeepReinforced announced InterX, a new AI system for Deep Code Optimisation based on Reinforcement Learning. Suitable for optimising:
– CUDA Kernels – Smart Contract
– SQL queries
– And more!

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OpenAI Monetizes ChatGPT with Ads, New AI Tools Emerge

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19 January 2026 12h30

Top stories in AI today: – OpenAI officially bringing ads to ChatGPT
– The Rundown Roundtable: Our AI use cases
– Code from your phone with OpenAI’s Codex
– Musk, OpenAI trade (more) public blows
– 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more Read more: https://
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AI commoditization slashes salaries for prompt engineering, Python, data analysis

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19 January 2026 8h47

What DIED in 2023-2026: Prompt Engineering: −60% salary ($95K→$38K). 100K+ certified, jobs disappeared. Basic Python: −61% ($82K→$32K). AI writes better code. Entry Data Analysis: −64% ($78K→$28K). Automated dashboards replaced analysts. Commoditization happened

Claude outperformed every human candidate on Anthropic’s engineering test

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19 January 2026 3h07

here's the part that stuck with me. claude outperformed every human candidate who's ever taken anthropic's internal engineering hiring test. not most. every single one in the company's history. a 2-hour rigorous assessment designed to filter for elite engineers. so what

Claude Opus 4.5 hits 80.9% on SWE-bench, first to break 80%

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19 January 2026 3h07

the benchmark data made me pause. claude opus 4.5 hit 80.9% on SWE-bench verified. first model to ever break 80%. this isn't leetcode. it's real github issues from production repos. the actual work developers do. 4 out of 5 real-world bugs. solved.

When does AI assistance become replacement? 60% engineering work on Claude

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19 January 2026 3h07

i looked up the internal numbers. their engineers are using claude for 60% of their work. not "sometimes helps with debugging." sixty percent of everything. 50% productivity gains. 2-3x better than a year ago.
at what point do we stop calling this "assistance"?

Daniela Amodei says Claude matches human-level coding at Anthropic

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19 January 2026 3h07

daniela amodei on CNBC: "by some definitions of that, we've already surpassed" human-level AI. her example was coding. she said claude writes code "about as well as many developers at anthropic now." anthropic. the company that probably employs some of the best engineers on