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Veteran forward Kevin Love reacted to his involvement in a reported three-team trade between the Miami Heat, Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Clippers on Monday. "Never thought I’d be a math problem," Love ...

What if the secrets to the universe’s most perplexing mathematical riddles were no longer locked away, but instead cracked open by an artificial mind? In a new development, OpenAI’s o3-mini model has ...

In May 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that the tech entrepreneur and former Trump adviser Elon Musk solved an "unsolvable" math problem after a Harvard professor called him "rich but dumb.

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