Opus 5.5 Agents Discover Two Room-Temperature Magnetic Semiconductor Candidates

A team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents found two candidate magnets for next-generation computer memory, both predicted to have zero net magnetism yet sort electrons by spin. One is a newly designed compound, the other a material first made in 1999; full calculations, code, and caveats were released.

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