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A new wave of research is raising uncomfortable questions about professional trust. A survey by Use dot AI found that sixty-four percent of people now feel confident challenging advice from doctors and lawyers after consulting an AI tool. Researchers are calling it an expertise recession, and it's worth asking whether that confidence is earned or simply borrowed.
On the crypto governance front, Solana is mid-vote on a set of proposals that would reshape how its token supply works. A plan to slow the creation of new SOL is narrowly passing, but a separate proposal to burn the equivalent of eight hundred thousand dollars worth of tokens daily is still short of the two-thirds threshold needed to move forward. The outcome could meaningfully affect how investors price the network's long-term scarcity.
And a quieter but pointed story is getting traction on Hacker News today. A developer has published a candid post titled My Business Is Dying, describing how AI tools have undercut the market for their bank statement conversion service. It's a small business story, but it puts a very human face on a disruption that economists are still struggling to measure.
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