The Enterprise AI Playbook from Stanford's Digital Economy Lab is the most useful document on this subject this year. Here is the short version for people who have to make it happen.
Vals AI reports that Claude Opus 5.5 agents ran quantum-mechanical simulations and surfaced one new compound and one 1999 material as spintronics candidates. The post is careful about caveats: the new compound may be hard to synthesise and the two simulation methods disagree on the old one.
Why it matters A rare agentic-research write-up that states its own limits; useful as a template for how to report agent results internally.