Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation
Q Labs reports that Dust can pretrain transformer models using activation perturbations, but its results are research claims, not independent validation.
Opus 5.5 Agents Discover Two Room-temperature Magnetic Semiconductor Candidates
Vals AI reports simulations of two Luttinger-compensated magnetic semiconductor candidates, including one newly designed compound and one known since 1999.