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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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From “impossible” puzzles to machine‑readable proofs The most striking shift is that AI is now solving problems that experts once labeled “impossible” for computers, at least in practice. Recent work ...