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Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

We are sharing two candidate magnets for next-generation computer memory, found by a team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents. Both are predicted to have zero net magnetism yet still sort electrons by spin: one a new compound we designed, the other a…

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Published6 h ago (Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:00:21 GMT)
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AuthorGeby Jaff