#AI-based discovery tools

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Revolutionizing E-Learning with AI Search and Smart Tutoring Tools – Powered by Sumcircle Technologies

In today’s fast-paced digital world, education is evolving beyond the boundaries of traditional classrooms. Thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI), students now have access to personalized and interactive learning through online platforms. With AI search tools, smart chatbots, and video-based learning systems, e-learning has become more efficient, student-centric, and scalable. At Sumcircle Technologies, we’re at the forefront of this educational transformation.

In this article, we’ll explain how advanced AI technologies like smart discovery engines and AI-powered learning assistants are transforming the tutoring experience. Whether you're developing a new online learning platform or upgrading an existing one, these insights will guide your journey.

What Is an AI-Enhanced Learning System?

An AI-enhanced learning platform uses artificial intelligence to deliver personalized and engaging learning experiences. Instead of one-size-fits-all content, these platforms adapt to each student's needs, learning pace, and preferences.

At the core of this system is a smart educational search engine that allows students to find content instantly. No more digging through irrelevant pages—AI does the job, offering tailored content that matches the student’s current learning level.

Want to learn more? Visit Sumcircle’s Smart Search Page.

How Smart Search Enhances Student Experience

Think of a student typing “easy explanation of Newton’s laws” on a learning app. A traditional system might return complex articles. But a platform powered by semantic AI search—like the ones we build at Sumcircle Technologies—understands the question contextually and delivers simplified, accurate, and age-appropriate content.

Our context-aware educational search tools use Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to interpret queries, track learning progress, and suggest related topics. It’s a game-changer in educational content navigation.

AI Chatbots: Your 24x7 Digital Teaching Assistant

AI chatbots are transforming student support. Available 24/7, these virtual tutors offer instant explanations, guide students through tasks, and recommend what to study next.

Say a student is confused about a science topic late at night—an AI bot steps in with hints, explanations, and follow-up questions. These bots use machine learning to become smarter over time, tailoring their help to individual learning behaviors.

By integrating educational chatbots into your platform, teachers are freed from repetitive tasks, and students get immediate guidance.

Combining Video Learning with AI Capabilities

Video classes remain a crucial component of any e-learning platform. But when AI is added to the mix, the experience becomes far richer.

AI can:

Generate automatic summaries of video content

Highlight key learning points

Provide follow-up quizzes based on the lecture

Using intelligent systems, students can even search specific moments from recorded classes. For example, a search for “photosynthesis steps” could take them directly to the relevant video section.

Key Components of an AI-Driven EdTech Platform

Here are some essential features to consider when building an online tutoring system with AI:

Smart Personalization – Tailored study paths for each student

Interactive Video Classes – Real-time discussions and Q&A

AI Support Bots – Round-the-clock assistance

Advanced Learning Search – Quick access to relevant materials

Performance Dashboards – Visual learning analytics

Parent Access – Monitor progress easily

Multi-Device Access – Learn on phones, tablets, or desktops

Cloud-Based Security – Reliable and secure data handling

At Sumcircle Technologies, we specialize in creating platforms with all these capabilities. Check out how we leverage AI for smart learning: https://sumcircle.com/artificial-intelligence

Why Use AI for Online Tutoring?

There are several benefits of using artificial intelligence in educational systems:

Faster Query Resolution – Students get answers instantly

Deeper Engagement – Adaptive learning keeps students curious

Higher Scores – Targeted support improves academic outcomes

Efficient Teaching – Less admin work for educators

Wider Reach – Serve thousands of learners at scale

As more schools and startups embrace EdTech, AI-based discovery tools and custom learning paths will become essential.

Why Partner with Sumcircle Technologies?

We design and develop custom e-learning platforms powered by AI search engines and smart tutoring bots. From intuitive UI to backend automation, we help education providers deliver exceptional learning experiences.

Whether you’re an educator or a tech entrepreneur, our team can bring your vision to life with:

AI architecture consulting

Chatbot integration

Scalable video learning solutions

Advanced analytics dashboards

👉 Contact Sumcircle Technologies to get started with a free consultation.

Final Words: The Smart Future of Online Tutoring

Online learning is evolving from static content delivery to intelligent, interactive education. With AI search tools, smart assistants, and personalized content, students now have access to a new era of effective, exciting learning.

Whether you're just starting your EdTech project or scaling up an existing platform, trust the experts at Sumcircle Technologies to guide you.

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AI and Health: New Technologies Paving the Way for Better Treatment

Artificial intelligence (AI) is expanding rapidly in the health sector, and it is revolutionizing our medical system. With the help of AI, new technologies are being developed that are not only helpful in accurately diagnosing diseases but are also playing an important role in personalized treatment and management.

Quick and accurate diagnosis of diseases AI-based tools can now analyze medical imaging data such as X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs quickly and accurately. This helps doctors to quickly detect complex conditions such as cancer, heart diseases, and neurological problems.

Personalized medicine AI can help create personalized treatment plans for every individual by analyzing genomics and biometrics. This technology ensures that the patient gets the right medicine and the right dose at the right time.

Improved health management AI-based health apps and wearables such as smart watches are now helping people monitor their health condition. These devices regularly track health indicators such as heart rate, blood pressure and sleep quality.

Accelerating medical research The role of AI has become extremely important in the development of new drugs and vaccines. Using AI, scientists can analyze complex data sets and make new medical discoveries faster.

Accessible and affordable healthcare AI technology is helping in delivering affordable and effective healthcare, even in rural and remote areas. Telemedicine and virtual health assistants are bridging the gap between patients and doctors.

Conclusion Artificial intelligence is playing an important role in making healthcare more effective, accurate, and accessible. However, there are challenges such as data security and ethics in the use of AI technology which need to be dealt with. In the coming years, with more advanced and innovative uses of AI, the healthcare landscape may change completely.

[scariusaquarius]

rehab. 47.

Avenger! Bucky Barnes x Winter Soldier! Fem! Reader

Summary: While on a mission to find any more possible super soldiers that were a part of the Winter Soldier program, Steve and Bucky make a discovery in an abandoned HYDRA base that was cleared out a few years prior to their mission. They discover the Reader, a long-forgotten soldier that was still asleep within a functioning cryostasis pod; still awaiting orders. While Bucky isn't happy about it, he is put up to the challenge of helping to rehabilitate the soldier in Wakanda where she may be able to become a person again.

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A/n: Last chapter was such a whirlwind omg and can you BELIEVE bucky knocked reader tf out, i'm so done with him LMAO also, i am my own worst enemy. i thought my wallet got stolen, ordered a new drivers license, made an appointment with the social security office, attempted to order a new birth certificate, and locked all of my cards and credit accounts. only to find out, i stole my own wallet. it was in pants i wore three days ago even though i swore i had it with me yesterday. im so fuckin mad lmfao. Also, for the mind part, I was writing to a couple songs: Stuck in a Loop by Soul Blind, In Your Head by Cloudyfield, The Crying Room by the Yagas, Screaming by Loathe, Pneuma by TOOL, and Is It Really You? by Loathe. also. this chapter was 11k words.

Also, if you enjoy my work, please consider buying me a coffee! If you would prefer to read Rehab on Archive, you may do so right HERE!

This is an au where Bucky joined the avengers but still rehabilitated in Wakanda (sometime before Infinity War [canon divergent cause NOPE]). I am NOT fluent in Russian, so I did use google translate cause I couldn't find a good translator that I trusted. If anything is wrong, PLEASE let me know!! Also, I tried to list as many warnings as possible so you know what the story will contain as chapters are posted. Stay safe!

NOTE: I DO NOT GIVE PERMISSION FOR ANY OF MY WORKS TO BE FED INTO AI FOR BOTS, I DO NOT GIVE PERMISSION FOR MY WORKS TO BE TRANSLATED, REPOSTED, REWORKED, ETC, IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM!!!

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Genre: Slowburn, Enemies to Lovers/Friends to Lovers, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Humor, Drama, Dark Content Rated: Explicit Warning: Angst, Dark Content: Graphic Depictions of Sexual Assault, Blood and Gore, Mentions of Manipulation, Kidnapping, Canon-Typical Violence, Body Horror, Nonconsensual Body Modification/Scarring, Emotional and Physical Abuse, Mentions of Murder, Mentions of Suicidal Thoughts/Ideation, Graphic Depictions of Human Remains, Mentions of Sexual Coercion/Manipulation, Death, Misuse of Drugs/Forced Drugging, Self-Harm (Graphic Depictions and Mentions), Nightmares

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Author: ScariusAquarius

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rehab masterlist. / rehab masterlist 2. chapter 46

Her mind was quiet.

Floating in a void of black, (Y/n) felt frozen; her limbs heavy, her body weighed down as though invisible chains were anchoring her in place. Her head throbbed, the pain blooming from her skull and bleeding down the back of her neck like fire in her veins. Something unseen crawled over her skin, ghosting like cold fingertips or insects, and she flinched, but couldn’t move fast enough.

There were sounds; distant and warped, like hearing the world through a thick wall of water: voices, music, the clash of fighting. None of them made sense, yet all of them sounded familiar.

She opened her eyes.

Nothing but pitch black.

A tightness bloomed in her chest, crushing her ribs, choking her throat. Her breath caught, sharp and panicked—and when she opened her mouth to scream or gasp or anything, bubbles escaped instead. Dozens of them danced upward into the dark, shimmering like they were underwater.

Panic surged through (Y/n), her heart beginning to race. Her arms moved first, slow and clumsy, and then her legs kicked into motion. She was swimming upward, desperate for light, for breath, for something. And far above her, cutting through storm-cloud water, a golden glow flickered like sunlight through waves.

She swam harder, desperation clinging to her like leeches. The closer she got to the surface, the louder the voices became: fragmented echoes from every part of her life, bleeding together into a wall of confusion.

"Please, don't make me do this!"

"I told you to stay out of my office!"

"Sugar, don’t you worry about a thing. Baltimore will be fun!"

"I wrote something new for you to see, (Y/n)!"

"I’m so sorry."

"I hate you! I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!"

Oh god, someone save me.

(Y/n)'s swimming became desperate as she got closer and closer to breaking the surface despite her lungs burning, and when she finally broke through; the sunlight burned her vision from the brightness. Her eyes closed, and when she breathed in deep gulps of oxygen and opened her eyes again, (Y/n) was no longer in the black waters of the void.

Instead, she was standing in the Danger Room, Bucky standing in front of her, and (Y/n) was horrified to find that she was pointing a gun at Bucky. The dead bodies of the Avengers and Wakandans were strewn around behind him, and blood was pouring down the walls; a distinct copper smell filling her nose.

Bucky's metal arm was seemingly ripped off, the arm malfunctioning and sparking on the floor, and the part attached to his shoulder was sparking as well. Almost every part of his body was covered in blood and wounds, and his eyes were disgusted as he looked at her.

"I should have left you were I found you."

"You don't mean that."

She cried, her hand shaking but unable to lower the pistol.

"You're a monster."

"I never meant for any of this to happen."

Bucky hissed out, taking a staggering step forward as blood began to pour from his mouth.

"This is all your fault."

"No, please, I didn't want this!"

(Y/n) watched in horror as bugs and maggots began to crawl out of his mouth, his body twisting grotesquely, and his blue eyes began to become red and bulge before his eyeballs burst within their sockets, and she screamed in fright as Bucky begged.

"Kill me. Make it right."

Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me.

It's not real.

The voice was unfamiliar, making (Y/n) freeze as Bucky fell over, and she was trying not to watch as his body began to bubble and melt before her.

You're just having a nightmare, (Y/n).

Who was speaking? (Y/n) didn't recognize the voice, and she glanced up at the ceiling in confusion before her blood ran cold as all of the dead bodies in the room were suddenly standing all around her; staring her down. (Y/n) was sobbing, staring down at her feet as blood and insects began to crawl towards her boots.

You don't have to be afraid.

"Make it stop."

She whispered, clenching her jaw tightly and squeezing her eyes shut again. However, despite her eyes being shut, it was almost as if she could still see everything.

You have to choose to stop.

She was caught off-guard by the statement. What did the voice mean by choosing to stop? None of this was her doing. None of this was her fault. She would never hurt her friends this way.

Friends.

(Y/n) paused, slowly opening her eyes as she looked up, and in front of her was Rebecca. Her heart stopped, the shock of seeing Rebecca making the whole room seem to stop and freeze in time, and the woman was wrapped in a glow of sunlight. The woman tilted her head slightly, a small smile on her face, and in her hands was a white lily.

"Remember the sunlight."

And suddenly, everything disappeared.

-BUCKY-

The Danger Room had powered down the second that (Y/n) had dropped, the lavender and vanilla scent heavy within the room. Bucky was sobbing, his blue eyes wild as he shook (Y/n), begging her to open her eyes and to say something. His ears were ringing, and his heart was pounding in his chest as he checked (Y/n)'s pulse with shaking fingers.

It was faint, but it was there, and while Bucky was relieved, there was a soul-crushing guilt running through his veins. Her face was a mess—her cheekbone on the left side had clearly fractured, the skin already turning a mottled shade of deep plum and gray.

Her cheek looked sunken, misshapen, and a thin line of blood had trickled from her nose from the impact. It was the kind of injury he'd seen before—one meant to break a body, not just subdue it.

The doors to the Danger Room opened, and Sam came running in with Tony hot on his tail. Sam was quick to place his hand on Bucky's shoulder, trying to pull the man back as Tony attached some sort of Stark tech to her head.

An apparatus suddenly came out of the device, and her face began to slowly start to restructure itself as the apparatus scanned her face. Despite the life-saving measures being taken, Bucky felt as though he had already killed her. Sam was speaking to him, but Bucky couldn't hear a thing. Sam shoved him a little, forcing Bucky to jump back into the present and glance over at Sam as the man exclaimed.

"Bucky! Look at me, you did what you had to do. Alright?"

"I...I didn't mean to...I didn't notice..."

His voice trailed off as tears filled his eyes, and Sam shook his head as he shook Bucky's shoulders.

"No, man, listen. She was trying to kill you, alright? You had to stop going easy at some point. Besides, we got her to stop. That's the point."

Bucky glanced over at (Y/n) again, his stomach becoming nauseous as he watched Tony's tech fix her sunken cheek and lighten the bruises, and his bottom lip trembled.

"I..I don't know what to do."

"Let us do our jobs, alright? Just take a breather."

Bucky felt weightless yet incredibly heavy at the same time. His stomach was in knots, his ears still ringing, and he stumbled as he slowly stood up. Tony glanced at him, stating as Bucky looked over at him.

"She's breathing, so that's a start. (Y/n) will be fine."

Bucky swallowed thickly before walking out of the Danger Room, and he ignored the looks from Wanda, Charles, Hank, Peter, and Logan as he passed by. He needed to find somewhere safe and fast. He could hear the kids all throughout the Institute, their chattering sounding like bees buzzing in his ear, and Bucky's breathing was starting to quicken.

He couldn't orient himself, and there was no amount of help that could keep Bucky from panicking. Somehow, Bucky found himself in the garden, sitting on a bench in front of the white lilies that were swaying in the wind. There were storm clouds in the distance, but they were rolling in slowly; thunder sounding in the distance.

The wind was picking up a bit, and Bucky was starting to fully panic. He was hyperventilating, his chest feeling cold and tight, and he was sweating. Bucky's hand came to his shoulder where his metal arm was attached to his flesh, and his fingers started to scratch incessantly at his skin.

Bucky was beginning to feel a bit lightheaded, and thoughts were racing through his mind NASCAR fast, the sound of bone cracking echoing through his mind over and over again. He remembered the way (Y/n) dropped like dead-weight, her head smacking against the floor, and Bucky was sobbing.

He didn't even realize he was crying and that blood was on his fingers; pain shooting through his back and shoulder, and Bucky's eyes fluttered as his vision began to tunnel. Suddenly, there was another weight on the bench, and Bucky glanced over to find Logan sitting there quietly while smoking his cigar.

All of a sudden, Logan's hand shot out and wrenched Bucky's wrist into his grip, and Bucky jolted, his eyes wide as he stared at Logan.

"That's enough. Pull yourself together."

Bucky's chest was still heaving, and Logan's tone became stern.

"You think you're the first person to break someone you care about? Join the damn club."

Bucky stuttered out.

"You don't understand-"

Logan shook his head, muttering.

"I understand a lot more than you think I do, bub. I've been around a lot longer than you."

Logan then took a deep breath before glancing at Bucky, his grip loosening on Bucky's wrist slightly.

"You didn't kill her. You just made it easier for us to be able to get her down and start working on her."

Bucky's eyes filled with more tears again, and he insisted.

"But I hurt her. I broke her goddamn face, Logan."

Logan frowned, stating.

"Yeah, and? She’s alive. You want a medal for feelin’ guilty, or you wanna help her? Do yourself a favor, and get your ass grounded, bub. Stop talking and start breathing."

"What?"

Logan rolled his eyes before saying.

"I really hate repeating myself. Start. Breathing. In. Out. Or I’ll knock you out so you can calm down the easy way."

Bucky was caught off guard before he began to breathe. His heart was beginning to steady, his head no longer feeling foggy, and Bucky began to become more aware of the pain from scratching at his skin. The scent of Logan's cigar was beginning to fill his nostrils, and Bucky's nose scrunched slightly from the smell before he heaved out a heavy breath.

When Bucky was finally calm, Logan slowly let his hand go before he turned away from Bucky to stare out at the flowers.

"What's the story with the arm, anyway?"

Bucky swallowed thickly before frowning slightly in confusion.

"What do you mean?"

"What do you think I mean, dumbass?"

Bucky glared at Logan for a moment before he glanced back at the lilies.

"Back in '45, Steve and I were leading a mission with the Howling Commandos. There was a scientist named Armin Zola that was with HYDRA...he'd kidnapped my unit and experimented on us before Steve got us out. We found out that he was passing through the Austrian Alps."

Bucky swallowed thickly before glancing down at his metal arm, clenching his fist a bit.

"We invaded the train, ambushed the soldiers, and when Steve had his back turned, there was a soldier that tried to get the jump on him. I protected Steve, and the blast from his gun blew a hole in the side of the train, and I fell out."

Bucky's expression became forlorn, his voice cracking slightly as he continued to speak.

"Steve tried to save me, but...the handle I was hanging on broke, and...I fell. I don't remember a lot, but I think my arm was cut off during the fall...or after...it's a bit fuzzy. I just remember someone dragging me through the snow, and then I woke up on a table with a metal arm."

Logan was quiet for a moment before his took a big puff of his cigar.

"IMy claws weren't always metal."

Bucky glanced over at Logan, asking.

"What?"

Logan held his hand up, and with a slick metallic sound, sharp metal came shooting out from between his fingers. Bucky's eyes widened slightly, and Logan suddenly realized that Bucky had never actually seen them before.

"You've never seen 'em before, huh?"

Bucky shook his head before resting his elbows on his knees, looking at the metal with intrigue.

"My claws were bone back then; was born with them. Sometime in my life, Stryker found out, and you know the rest. Got pumped with adamantium and here I am now."

Logan glanced down at the claws before they retracted with a loud noise, and Bucky pursed his lips slightly before asking.

"Does it ever stop feeling like they don't belong?"

Logan was quiet for a moment, regarding Bucky with a thoughtful look on his face before he replied.

"Sometimes. Everyone's got good days and bad days, kid."

Bucky glanced away before looking back as Logan added.

"When it comes to belonging...well, nobody really belongs anywhere. It just matters that you go where you know someone's got your back when shit goes wrong."

Bucky sat back in his seat before muttering.

"I never thought I'd find an old man as fucked up as me."

"Fuck you."

Bucky snorted, and Logan couldn't help but to smirk a bit before offering his cigar to Bucky. However, Bucky scrunched his nose up in disgust, shaking his head.

"No thanks. I don't smoke."

"I don't really smoke them for the taste."

Bucky raised his eyebrow, asking.

"Then why do you smoke them?"

Logan tilted his head slightly, stating.

"Got a heightened sense of smell because of my mutation. Smoking masks all the different scents. If I don't have something to mask all the smell, it gives me a migraine."

Bucky nodded after a moment, replying.

"It's probably not as strong as yours, but I also have a pretty good nose because of the serum. Got pretty good hearing too."

"It comes in handy when you wanna eavesdrop."

Bucky snorted again, shaking his head before quipping lightheartedly.

"Well, unlike some people, I try to be respectful."

"Don't effect me."

Bucky shook his head, and the two men sat in silence for a moment before Bucky stated gently, looking over at Logan with a sincere expression.

"Listen...thanks for...being here."

Logan was quiet for a moment before he replied.

"Don't mention it. Gotta look out for one another."

-MEDBAY-

The room was cold and quiet; the hum of different bits of machinery running droning in the background. (Y/n) was lying on the table, eyes closed and covered in a light sheen of blue from the machinery above her.

Small bandages were placed upon her face, soft sensory nodes attached to keep an eye on her brainwave activity, and although Tony's technology had helped to heal most of her face; it wasn't able to touch the bone.

Tony was standing nearby the table, his arms crossed and face stoic. His fingers were steepling against his arm as he watched her vitals, and Hank was busy with adjusting some things within the diagnostic tray located at the end of the bed.

At the head of the bed, Strange was mumbling softly to himself as his fingers slowly spun in a circle above (Y/n)'s sternum; runes faintly glowing across his fingers as he worked.

Just outside of the Medbay and watching through the window, Charles was sitting with a hand to his chin; his face expressionless as he thought to himself. Peter was sitting nearby with his knees to his chest, his arms wrapped around his legs and a sad look on his face. Wanda was holding a comforting hand to his shoulder, watching as (Y/n) slept.

Sam was leaning against the doorway, his arms crossed and a frown on his face. He was staring down at the ground, feeling almost shameful as Sam tapped his foot almost impatiently. Ororo was standing near him, her eyes empathetic as she glanced at Sam, and Hank's voice made everyone immediately perk up.

"Her vitals are stabilizing and steady, but there's some activity in the hippocampus. It's...almost like something is looping."

He scratched his head slightly, and Tony stated, frowning as he looked over Hank's shoulder.

"I've seen this before at Shuri's lab in Wakanda. It's the failsafe...probably trying to reactivate."

Strange shook his head, his eyes still closed as he replied.

"It's because of the rift within her mind. The bridge between her body and her mind is still quite large, and we need to work fast on getting this failsafe deprogrammed quickly."

Charles hummed to himself before stating, rubbing a hand to his chin once more.

"Theoretically, we could keep her in a sleeping state until we are able to do so."

Peter quirked his eyebrow up, asking.

"You mean like...Sleeping Beauty?"

Charles nodded, and Sam just huffed.

"Just tell us what we need to do. We can't leave her like this, and Bucky's going to run himself down into the ground if this goes on for any longer."

Wanda glanced at Sam, asking with a frown.

"Where is he? It might be a stretch, but...perhaps he could be the one to start mending that rift."

Charles shook his head, stating quietly.

"When I went into her mind...it was like the Winter Soldier was a completely different entity. I've never seen anything like it. It's...almost as though HYDRA made the Winter Soldier persona have autonomy."

Ororo was confused, tilting her head as she asked incredulously.

"A different entity? How is that even possible?"

Strange sighed, his hands lowering as he shook his head a bit, and he glanced at the window as he explained.

"It's not an entirely different entity nor is it just programming, but a splintered consciousness. That thing inside her mind—the Winter Soldier—it’s not merely a persona. It's a parasite, carved out of trauma and forced obedience. Had I known this sooner, I would have never let her bond with it."

Strange shook his head, hands on his hips as a slightly guilty look came over him. Wanda shook her head, stating gently.

"Nobody could have anticipated this. HYDRA has been improving their methods for years and creating heinous schemes like this since the beginning. We would have never thought that they would do something like this, however."

Ororo looked confused, asking as she stepped forward a bit, her eyes glancing at (Y/n) as the woman slept peacefully on the table.

"A parasite? What do you mean?"

Strange glanced at the woman, explaining with a tilt of his head as he looked back down at (Y/n).

"Something like that. When HYDRA fracture her psyche by activating this failsafe, they didn't just bury her memories or her identity. HYDRA anchored the programming to her limbic system and into her emotional core. They fed it pain until it grew teeth, and now it functions as a separate self. Like a weaponized and homicidal echo."

Charles frowned before entering the Medbay and stopping right near (Y/n)'s head, his lips pursed as he added.

"Caused by trauma, and reinforced with repetition."

"Exactly. That's why none of us have been able to reach (Y/n) within her mind. The Soldier is acting like a gatekeeper, and anybody that tries to intrude, it will act accordingly."

Hank hummed, holding a hand to his chin then.

"This is all so fascinating...and it explains why they would need to install the failsafe within her actual genetic makeup. Altering the brain chemistry just enough for it almost cause Dissociative Identity Disorder, and reinforcing that other identity to be strong enough to keep the light from (Y/n)."

Sam rubbed his face, asking.

"So, we're dealing with a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?"

"That's a bit of a distasteful analogy, but yes."

Strange confirmed, and Peter suddenly stood up, stating with a slight shyness to his voice.

"I’ve been watching the neuro-imaging patterns since she's been here. It seems as though the failsafe’s triggered by a feedback loop through the hippocampus and amygdala—her memory and fear centers. When she feels threatened or out of control, the code reboots."

Ororo looked surprised, asking.

"So, it's triggered by her fear?"

Peter nodded, wringing his hands a bit more as he explained further.

"Fear, pain, trauma. HYDRA basically… booby-trapped her emotions. But if we sequence her current gene expression, we can isolate the epigenetic markers that respond to those triggers."

Hank's eyes lit up with awe, and Tony couldn't help but to nod in pride before adding as he clapped Peter on the shoulder.

"So, then let's engineer something that can isolate those epigenetic markers without wiping clean the slate."

Hank pointed out, his foot tapping almost impatiently as he spoke.

"We'll need some type of technology that can deliver the protein directly to the hippocampus, and a fast-track simulation. She's not stable enough for trial and error."

Wanda suggested, shrugging her shoulders.

"Perhaps we should tell Princess Shuri. With her tech combined with Tony's and with a team of skilled scientists, you might be able to completely reverse everything HYDRA has done while Strange, Charles, and I can work on her psyche and suppressing the Soldier."

Just then, the doors to the Medbay opened, and in walked Logan and Bucky. Bucky was avoiding eye contact with everybody in the room, and he instead walked to stand beside (Y/n). His face was almost expressionless until it softened as he watched her sleep.

"What's the plan?"

Tony pursed his lips a bit before he stated.

"We're gonna engineer some nanotech that's gonna try to isolate her epigenetic markers where the failsafe has been integrated and deliver the protein directly to the hippocampus. Well do a fast-track simulation beforehand, however, just in case something happens so we can perfect the system."

Bucky nodded before Charles stated.

"While they are doing that, Ms. Maximoff, Doctor Strange, and I will work on her psyche and start mending the bridge between her identity and her mind itself. She is essentially locked within her own mind because of this Winter Soldier persona. HYDRA was able to make it almost autonomous, so it is acting as a gatekeeper."

Bucky looked up, frowning in confusion.

"Wait, did you say it became autonomous? How is that possible?"

Strange stepped forward, crossing his arms as he stared down at (Y/n) before looking over at Bucky.

"Think of the mind as an endless hallway of rooms. Normally, a person's identity is the building that houses these rooms. HYDRA, however, didn't just create its own room in her mind. They built a prison around the identity as a whole and gave the jailer free will. It's not autonomous like you and me, but it's growing close. The programmed instincts that were reinforced over the years, the trauma and abuse...it gave it permanence while repetition gave it power."

Charles then spoke, Wanda nodding along with him.

"And fear gave it control."

Despite Bucky still being a bit confused, he was slowly grasping what Strange was saying. However, Strange noticed that Bucky didn't entirely understand and sighed heavy.

"(Y/n)'s Mind equals Castle. Identity equals Room. HYDRA equals Moat around the Castle. Winter Soldier Identity equals Jailor keeping (Y/n)'s Identity as a hostage. Do you understand or do I need to break out the crayons?"

Bucky glared at Strange, muttering.

"No thanks, Jackass, I got it."

Strange ignored the curse, shaking his head before looking down at (Y/n) again. He began to explain more, rubbing his chin thoughtfully.

"HYDRA shaped this identity with such ruthless precision that it behaves like an independent consciousness. Not sentient, but reflexive...almost like a psychic immune response."

Tony cut in, shrugging his shoulders a little as he glanced at Bucky.

"It doesn’t question orders. It only protects itself and prevents anything that might unravel its purpose. Including her."

Bucky and Tony shared a quiet look before Bucky glanced down at (Y/n) again, stating with a frown.

"So, in order to get (Y/n) back, we have to get past this...thing."

Tony nodded, and Charles seemed intrigued before asking.

"Forgive me for asking, Sergeant Barnes, but...what was it like for you when you were in the Winter Soldier state?"

Bucky felt on-the-spot, a strange sensation of embarrassment going through him, and Bucky swallowed thickly before stating quietly.

"It's like you're drowning, but you're aware that something is wrong. Everything gets muffled when you're activated, and you can't do anything but obey. Your instincts are sharpened, but there's a part that wants to run...and that part gets weaker the more time goes by that you're locked in the Winter Soldier state unless something happens to jog your memory, like me and Steve."

Bucky glanced down at his metal hand, whispering softly.

"I remember watching my hands do things I couldn’t stop; hearing commands and obeying without question. It wasn’t just physical… It was like my soul was sitting in the back seat, chained up, and I was watching the outside world from a window."

Charles nodded before he stated quietly.

"When I reached her, it was freezing. She was locked in a cage that was covered in snow and ice...and there were parts of her that were disappearing into a mirror. Every mind is different, but hers...felt lonely. And then, the Winter Soldier came."

His words were vague, but Bucky understood what he was implying. The room became a bit quiet as Charles seemed to become a bit emotional, Hank placing his hand on Charles' shoulder comfortingly as the Professor spoke.

"She is such a lonely child. There was hardly any hope within her. I am...I am afraid that we will be too late."

Strange was looking down at (y/n) with a softened expression, and he shook his head.

"We won't be too late. There is a possibility that we can use to give us more time."

Tony glanced over at Strange, frowning heavily.

"You're not implying what I think you are, right?"

Strange nodded as he glanced at Tony.

"If used precisely—and sparingly—the Stone can help stabilize the time dilation within her psyche. The failsafe is locked in a feedback loop. To us, it’s been minutes. But to her, it could feel like years. That kind of distortion can fracture a person completely. We won't know for sure how this failsafe is working, however, until we are able to get inside of her mind because of the growing disconnect between her and her physical body."

Wanda's expression grew thoughtful as she nodded slightly.

"If we slow it down… we’ll have more control over the environment inside her mind."

Charles added, looking at Strange as the Doctor nodded to him slightly.

"And we’ll be able to move more freely inside the mental plane without triggering deeper defenses, if I am to understand this correctly."

Sam perked up, however, asking as Logan scratched his head with confusion on his face as he tried to understand everything.

"What are the drawbacks?"

Strange then shrugged, stating.

"Well, one of us could die within her mindscape because of the Winter Soldier, something could go wrong and cause her whole entire mind to collapse and render her braindead, we could accidentally erase her identity and leave just the soldier. You know, the works."

Sam gave Strange an exasperated look, and Bucky sighed.

"Listen, I don't care what we do as long as we get (Y/n) back. There's no room for failure."

Bucky then looked at Strange with a firm look on his face.

"None."

"I can't exactly control what happens."

Bucky wasn't exactly satisfied with the answer, and Peter spoke up quietly, making everyone in the room look at him.

"What about the other Avengers? Shouldn't we let them know what's going on?"

Bucky shook his head, glancing at Peter as the young man looked at Bucky with a worried expression.

"If we tell the rest of the Avengers, then there's a chance that they are going to want answers that we don't have, disagree with what we're doing, or tell us to wait. We can't waste any time whatsoever right now."

Peter pursed his lips before nodding, and Charles comforted Peter with a gentle nod of his head.

"We will inform them, but after we make the first move. Time is of the essence."

Peter was satisfied with their answer before he sat up a little straighter after glancing down at (Y/n) for a moment. Strange stepped forward then, pulling the Eye of Agamotto from within his robes, and his voice became solemn as he spoke.

"If we do this, then we must enter with intent, with control, and with anchors. If you lose focus, you will get lost. If that happens, I cannot guarantee success."

The room was quiet; tensions rising, and Bucky pursed his lips as he hovered over (Y/n). Her eyes were still closed, her face still and slightly sweating, and Bucky's voice was an amalgamation of grit and steady grief.

"We'll succeed."

Strange looked at him, then at Wanda and Charles.

"Then let us begin."

Charles, Wanda, and Strange all came to stand around (Y/n). Strange was at the head of the table above her head with Wanda and Charles on either of her sides, and the Eye of Agamotto began to glow green. A circle appeared over (Y/n)'s chest, and runes began to climb up over the walls like ivy. The lights began to flicker, a strange whispering filling the room, and Strange instructed.

"We must conjoin hands to create a link between us all. Stark, Hank, Peter, you all must begin the physical deprogramming of the failsafe once we are all inside."

Peter sprung up from his seat to assist Tony and Hank as the two men began to prepare, and Strange took a calming and focusing deep breath, his eyes closing as Wanda, Charles, Bucky conjoined hands. Strange then reached out, grabbing a hold of Wanda and Charles, and he murmured as the link began to form.

"Remember and anchor yourself to (Y/n). Her scent, her presence, her voice, anything that can help you to stay focused."

Bucky was nervous before his eyes closed, and a strange sensation of being pulled began to tug at him. He was still sitting as far as he was aware, but Bucky was beginning to feel weightless. Suddenly, Strange stated before a huge force seemed to tug on Bucky's whole body.

"Prepare yourselves, and do not resist."

Bucky's grip on Wanda and Charles tightened, his jaw clenching as his lips curled back and his eyes scrunched shut even tighter. The second that the spell snapped shut, the four of them were gone; a gust of wind entering the lab as they disappeared.

-(Y/N)'S MIND-

The second that the group landed within her mind, there was a heaviness that befell the group. It was a mix of fear, pain, danger, and a strange sensation of dread. It was a feeling of 'we're not supposed to be here,' and it was permeating through every bone, every muscle, and every part of their minds.

Bucky and Strange instantly recognized where they were, and Charles and Wanda were both trying to gather their bearings. Bucky and Strange frowned heavily when they noticed that something was wrong.

The light brown wallpaper that had adorned the cozy living room was stained with black mold and ripped in places. The entertainment center was still the same, but the TV was playing simple static; the TV glitching slightly as if it was a projection. The coffee table was splintered in certain places, the Bible that was open now completely blank of words, and the lavender and vanilla candle that had been burning was snuffed out.

Despite the slight desolation of the room, there was still sunlight filtering through the windows; echoes of a Doris Day record playing, but it was warped; the record sounding as though it was skipping every few seconds.

Wanda and Charles felt extremely uncomfortable, but Strange was on guard while Bucky was frowning and glancing around the mindscape.

All of a sudden, there was a distant whisper coming from the hallway that led into the kitchen, and Strange and Bucky shared a look. It sounded like (Y/n)'s voice, but nobody in the room could make out what was being said.

"I must admit that this is....incredibly unsettling."

Wanda walked up to the pictures that were on the wall, her fingers coming up to touch the faceless people in the pictures, and Bucky frowned deeply when he noticed that (Y/n) was missing from some of the pictures.

"We should keep moving."

Strange muttered, feeling his hackles rise with every moment he stood in the room, and Charles asked him.

"Do you feel that presence? It's...it's as if the Soldier is watching us."

Strange stated cryptically as Bucky rested his hand on his sidearm despite the gun having no real use.

"That's because they are. We need to move quickly."

Wanda's fingers filtered through the sunlight peeking through the blinds, muttering with fascination.

"The sunlight isn't real...it's...cold."

Her words hung heavy, and Strange walked to the hallway before pausing. Bucky joined him, and he muttered.

"That definitely isn't how it's supposed to be."

Instead of the hallway leading into the kitchen, it was elongated. Doors were on either side of the walls, shut tight and dark shadows bleeding beneath the frames. The end of the hallway seemed to open to a completely different living room that neither Strange nor Bucky had ever seen before, and Strange's hand began to glow orange as he mumbled a quick protection spell over the group.

The TV suddenly began to emit feedback, everyone looking back as whispers came through; sounding distorted and angry.

"Оставлять." (leave)

Bucky and Strange shared a look, and the two muttered.

"We should probably listen."

"Good idea. Let's go."

The group began to walk down the hallway carefully, Strange lighting the way with his magic, and as they left, a reflection in one of the picture frames showed a fifth person that wasn't with them; a woman in a white lab coat and covered in blood and soot and two crushed legs watching them as they left.

When the group made it into the new living room, Bucky frowned and glanced around. It looked as though it was from the 70's, a conversation pit in the corner of the room where another TV was settled; frozen on a still of President Eisenhower when he was giving his speech on modernizing the Atomic Energy Act of 1946. The screen was glitching, replaying the same moment over and over again.

There was a record player sitting against the wall just beside the TV, and the needle to the player was glitching; no music coming through this time. The kitchen looked as though it had been burned; scorch marks all over the walls and a strange, black fog covering the floor.

The decorations on the walls looked incomplete; some of the decorations looking as though they were glitched with other pieces of the decorations. There was a picture on the wall that had a half of a chair coming through it, and Wanda muttered.

"It's...almost like a video game that is glitching. I've never seen anything like this before."

Charles replied as he moved closer to the picture, inspecting the chair and becoming perturbed when he noticed a blood stain on the seat.

"It is a representation of how fractured her mind has become. Memories are becoming warped...forgotten."

Bucky was quiet, glancing around before his eyes became drawn to the hallway that was turned completely upside down and slowly gyrating. The house was creaking loudly, as if there was a force moving the home back and forth like a skyscraper, and Bucky felt strangely sick to his stomach.

"This might be where (Y/n) grew up with Robert and Doris. She hasn't told me if she remembers this place...but it wouldn't surprise me if she doesn't want to remember it."

Suddenly, there was a voice that echoed around them, making the group become tense and put their hands up as if they were ready to fight.

'You are going to go into science whether you like it or not!'

'I don't want to!'

Shards of mirrors suddenly came shooting from the walls, the environment darkening as the sound of a woman sobbing echoed around them. Bucky, however, didn't recognize the voice, and he clenched his jaw.

"I really don't like this."

Wanda's hands were glowing, red whisps flowing around her hands as she stated.

"Reality here is becoming incoherent. It seems as though she is collapsing. The longer that we stay in a certain mindscape, the longer the memory and metaphors begin to blur."

Charles placed his fingers to his temples, closing his eyes for a moment before he stated grimly.

"I cannot reach her very well still...but it feels as though she is losing herself. She has nothing to hold onto...we must tether ourselves."

A low rumble passed through the floor as the hallway’s rotation slowed, clicking unnaturally into place as it settled upside down. At its entrance, a child's voice echoed faintly, whispering like a breeze through trees.

'Don't go in there. He's still in the basement.'

The walls flickered, the scorched kitchen glitching into a sepia-toned 1950s kitchenette and then back again, and Bucky swallowed thickly before asking.

"So, how the hell do we tether and to what?"

Strange glanced back at Bucky with a thoughtful gaze, stating.

"The one thing that she has held onto closely is Rebecca. We can try to tether to that core memory, but it's risky."

Bucky was looking at Strange with a firm look, muttering.

"You're the expert here. I'm just along for the ride."

Strange's hands lit up again, and he mumbled to himself as he began to tether the group to the memory of Rebecca, but the house began to shake; the TV beginning to give extreme feedback. The record began to play a distorted track, but Bucky wasn't able to tell what it was as different songs turned into a mess of one; playing over one another. Strange winced and let the spell dissipate, stating.

"The Soldier already has a hold of it. There's no way to do this the easy way."

Wanda sighed heavily, glancing around uneasily as dust came falling from the ceiling.

"As long as we stick together, we should be fine."

Strange began to lead the group down the hallway, but int he corner of his eye, he watched as a small child ran across the shards of mirrors before disappearing. Swallowing thickly, Strange pursed his lips before continuing.

At the end of the hallway was the door to the basement, and there was dirt covering the ground by the door. Strange knelt down as he gently touched the dirt, feeling the soft coldness of the earth, and he noticed a footprint within the dirt. Glancing back up, Strange glanced to his left to look directly into (Y/n)'s childhood room. The door was wide open, glitching as half of the door suddenly became sideways every few seconds.

His blood ran still for a moment as he noticed a child's face glancing at him from around the corner, and Strange shot up. Bucky was perturbed, asking as Strange watched the child disappear around the wall.

"What? What is it?"

"Nothing. We need to keep moving."

Strange reached for the door to the basement, and the door opened, leading to a cramped staircase. Leaves and dirt and twigs were littering the steps, and the further down the group went, the more that wood turned into moss and grass. When they made it down into the basement, they were startled to find that it wasn't a basement at all.

They were now standing in the woods, a menacing greenish gold light filtering through the trees. It was twilight, the mindscape lit up just enough for the group to see where they were going, and Bucky instantly felt sick to his stomach.

"I know these woods."

Charles hummed, moving to sit beside Bucky as the man kept a stone-cold expression as he glanced around the wooded area.

"Meltzer Woods."

Wanda made a face as her boot sunk a bit into mud, and she shook the mud off with a grimace as she glanced around.

"This is one of the first few places that (Y/n) remembered, is it not?"

Bucky nodded, and he glanced at the trail that led deeper into the woods, gnarled vines and thorns covering the path.

"Yeah. She used to hang out with my sister here a lot."

Strange was uneasy, glancing around the woods as the light of the twilight sun seemed to spin around them slowly as if it was an inverted lighthouse. Suddenly, a voice came filtering through as the woods seemed to begin curling in on itself.

'I just want to be me!'

Fire burst into the mindscape, Wanda yelping, and Bucky flinched as Strange's eyes widened slightly. The door behind them slammed shut, splinting in on itself as it seemed to get sucked into a void of nothingness, and the smell of gasoline and melting rubber met their noses.

"Time to go."

Strange immediately began to levitate and fly down the trail. Wanda assisted Charles and Bucky, using her powers to lift them both and follow after Strange as the woods behind them erupted into flame, collapsing in on itself as screams of pain and horror echoed around them.

'Mom! Wake up! Please!'

The sound of metal twisting sounded around the group, and Bucky was panicking slightly as he felt unsteady, not used to being levitated as he was. He was struggling to stay vertical, waving his hands a bit, and Strange had to dodge around flying car parts that were slamming down into the ground.

Blood began to ebb and bubble up from the ground, old photos and broken children's toys appearing through, and there were journal papers starting to fly around chaotically. The light in the woods turned a deep and angry red as more mirror shards shot up through the ground, and if Bucky looked hard enough, he could see a reflection of (Y/n) in one of them.

She was simply watching and staring as they levitated away. Blood was running down her face, her eyes hollow and empty, and her mouth was closed in a firm line. She was in the clothes she had worn while at Wakanda, and he was horrified to find that mirror shards were coming out of her body as well; frostbite affecting different parts of her body, and Bucky exclaimed.

"Wait, that was (Y/n)!"

Strange hissed out, going faster.

"No, it wasn't. Anything that you see here is not going to be (Y/n). It's the Soldier trying to bait you to separate. Do not believe anything that you see!"

Strange became unsettled as his hands began to tremble, his brows furrowing as he grit his teeth.

This wasn't real. His hands were steady. That wasn't Christine's voice that he was hearing.

'I can't do this anymore, Stephen.'

Strange was becoming irritated, and the group was in a similar state. Wanda was biting her lip, her powers flickering slightly as she heard a voice she hadn't heard in a very long time.

'What, you didn't see this coming? You should have known.'

No, it wasn't her brother. There was no possible way. This was just a defense mechanism that was activating. They had to keep going.

Charles was wincing heavily, clutching a hand to his head as he attempted to block the voices of children that he couldn't save and help, their cries echoing through his mind painfully.

'Why couldn't you save us? Why did you let us suffer?'

No. No, this wasn't real. He had to stay calm and tethered. He was trying to block the voices, but it was becoming difficult. However, for a second, the voices quieted, and Charles was subtly surprised to see Wanda holding his hand with a pained expression as they continued to fly down the trail of Meltzer Woods.

Bucky, however, was horrified as he heard Rebecca's voice echo around, screaming and begging for him not to hurt her. If he looked in the woods, he could see a distant mirage through the trees of him as the Winter Soldier; standing over Rebecca with a pistol aimed at her head. She was bloodied and broken, and her head turned from looking up at the Winter Soldier to stare directly into his eyes with fear.

Then, the mimic of him turned as well, but instead of his face, it was a black shadow, and he cried out when the mimic pulled the trigger. Bucky was losing it, and Strange grabbed a hold of Bucky's shoulder, glancing at him with a harsh expression.

"Get it together. You need to stay calm! It's not real!"

Bucky was starting to hyperventilate slightly, and the mindscape responded. The jagged mirrors became even more jagged, the branches of the trees gnarling, and the blood coming up from the ground became hot; steaming in the coldness that was starting to grow within the atmosphere.

His hand came to his dog tags, clutching onto them tightly, and the warmth of the metal was grounding enough for his breathing to steady just the slightest. A distant air-raid siren began to sound, and the trees began to snap; the dense forest becoming a desolate land of anger and instinct, and Bucky's muscles were tensed so painfully that he almost felt like stone.

Up ahead, Strange could see a door that looked like a metal cell door. It was cracked open, white fluorescent light flickering through the crack, and he announced.

"There's a door up ahead!"

Wanda's hand burst with red light as her power activated, and she let out a cry as she yanked the door open. The second the group made it through the door, Strange slammed it shut, the sound of the woods crashing into the door made everyone's blood run cold. However, the door barely budged; standing firm.

Bucky dropped to the ground, stumbling down to his knees as he heaved in one breath after another. The sound of the gunshot was ringing through his mind, the image of Rebecca dying replaying in his mind like a broken record, and a hand on his shoulder made Bucky look up. Charles was looking down at him, a soft yet tense look on his face as he murmured softly.

"That part of you is done. Remember your sunlight."

Instantly, an image of (Y/n) went through Bucky's mind, and he swallowed thickly before wiping his face of the tears that had fallen down his bearded face. Bucky slowly stumbled up, and Charles took his hand from Bucky's shoulder. When Bucky turned around, however, his jaw clenched.

They were in a HYDRA lab. Equipment and diagnostic machines were littered around the room, cabinets full of different colored chemicals lining the walls. There was a strange black substance on the floor, and Bucky was perturbed to see elements of the previous environments within the room as well.

The record player from the unknown home, broken pictures from Aunt Mavi's house, leaves, twigs, and dirt from Meltzer Woods, and a snuffed out lavender and vanilla candle that was half melted; glass and all.

In the middle of the room was a mind chair, and the group froze when they noticed a completely black shadow sitting in the chair. Strange immediately brought his hands up, orange encasing his fists, and Wanda's eyes lit up red as she glared at the shadow. Bucky's metal arm whirred as the plates shifted to reinforce his arm, but Charles was the only one who didn't seem worried.

Slowly, Charles brought his chair to the front of the group, Strange glancing at him and blinking wildly as Charles approached the shadow.

"What the hell are you doing?"

Charles didn't answer Strange. Instead, Charles stopped halfway from the shadowy figure sitting in the Mind Chair, tilting his head slightly. Suddenly, a warbled voice hissed; echoing around the group as the shadow slowly stood up.

'You overstepped, and now you'll crawl back under whatever rock you came from and wait to be told when to breathe.'

The shadow was glitching, its head twitching sideways every now and then; bones cracking with every twitch, and Charles just stared at it before he started quietly.

"You are so full of hurt, dear girl."

The shadow paused for a second, and Bucky frowned heavily as it began to take on a more apparent shape; shrinking down slightly. Charles didn't hesitate, coming closer a bit more as he murmured.

"What they did to you was unfair."

Disembodied sobs began to echo around the room, cracks appearing in the walls and the ceiling, and the lights flickered slightly. Mirror shards shot through various parts of the room, and when Bucky breathed out, his breath was becoming visible. Snow began to fall from nowhere, and the shadow shrunk more.

"It was never your fault, (Y/n)."

The shadow clutched at its head, a distorted scream coming from it, and Charles spoke louder this time.

"You never deserved any of this. But you can choose to be more...to become more than what they did...than what your father did."

The screams got louder until the lights suddenly shattered. The room was plunged into darkness for a moment before the room mysteriously lit up, and instead of the shadow, there was a little girl standing in front of the mind chair.

Bucky's eyes widened as he looked at (Y/n), her childish face wet and full of tears as she cried softly. Charles' expression softened, and he came closer to her.

"What is the matter?"

(Y/n) sniffled before she cried out.

"Why? Why didn't Daddy ever want to play with me?"

Charles' expression became sad, and Strange was on edge, a foreboding feeling beginning to fill him.

"Professor, back away."

Charles, however, didn't listen. Instead, the man simply looked down at (Y/n), stating softly.

"Your father valued something for more greater...something that cost him something far more precious than all the recognition and power in the world."

(Y/n) balled her fists and held them to her eyes, sniffling as she whimpered.

"I don't like it here. They do mean things to me. I want to go home."

Charles sighed softly, and he whispered softly.

"I understand."

Suddenly, the image of (Y/n) froze for a moment, and Charles' expression became grim. Wanda's eyes widened, and she exclaimed as she let out a powerful blast that was aimed at the apparition.

"Professor, get back!"

Suddenly, a gloved hand ripped through the girl's chest, blood splattering on the ground, and Bucky watched in horror as the Winter Soldier clawed and climbed out from within the body. Bones cracked and limbs became limp as the soldier made its way out, and when the Winter Soldier stood up; her limbs healed and shifted back into place.

Charles was wide-eyed as he looked at the Winter Soldier before he frowned heavily and held two fingers to his temple. The Winter Soldier was frozen in place for a moment, and it allowed Charles to move back as Strange instantly murmured a spell. Orange runes wrapped around the Winter Soldier, but the soldier cracked through the spells.

Her eyes never left Bucky's. Bucky didn't know what to make of the scene at first, the child body of (Y/n) turning into dust and fading away over the soldier's shoulder, and Bucky frowned heavily. Wanda levitated a metal table, launching it at the soldier. The table hit, knocking the soldier back a few steps, and a deep growl echoed around them.

The snow began to become heavier, the room becoming colder, and the mirror shards were starting to crack, blood pouring down along the edges. Red light was being reflected from the mirrors, and Bucky could see the different mindscapes from all of the shards in the room. Just as Strange went to launch another attack, the soldier grabbed a chair and threw it at him. In the moment that Strange took to deflect the chair, the soldier launched herself at Bucky.

Bucky met the ground-shaking punch by blocking it with his metal arm, and he threw an uppercut, missing the soldier by an inch as she threw her head back.

The force of Bucky’s missed uppercut blew the snow into a brief spiral, scattering the frost off the ground. The woman snarled, the sound coming from deep within her chest, and she swung again. This time, however, she landed the blow, and Bucky went skidding backwards across the black ink-slicked floors. Wanda shouted, her voice breaking as she sent a red whip of magic towards the soldier's legs.

"She's locked completely in!"

Before the magic could reach the soldier, however, the soldier stepped into one of the black puddles and disappeared into it in a whisp of black smoke. Instantly, Wanda, Charles, Strange, and Bucky grouped together; back to back and looking around at the floors. The room was beginning to groan as if the building was shifting, and suddenly, the Soldier's hand shot out from one of the puddles and wrapped painfully around Bucky's ankle.

She was trying to pull him in, and Wanda quickly shot another red whip at her wrist. It wrapped tight, forcing the soldier to lose her grip only for the Soldier to snap it with brute force, shards of red magic cracking like glass.

“She’s not just locked in. She's in control here. We're fighting on her terms."

Charles stated as he watched the soldier's arm disappear back into the puddle, and Strange frowned heavily as he began to murmur.

"We need to flush her out. Wanda, can you cover the puddles?"

Wanda nodded and began to move furniture over the puddles, her eyes red and sweat pearling at her brow. She was starting to become fatigued, and Bucky shot his gaze to the only puddle left in the room that was in front of the Mind Chair. The black puddle bubbled, and the Soldier came crawling out with an annoyed growl.

Because of the fury that was running through the soldier, the mirror shards around the room began to flicker like water before showing different images.

One was of (Y/n) in the Mind Chair while in the process of being wiped, her screams echoing throughout the room. Another shard showed (Y/n) training with a gun in her hand, taking the gun apart and putting it back together as fast as she could. Another showed (Y/n) sobbing under ice water, writing with Rebecca, being raped by Rollins.

It was horrific and daunting, and Bucky had to shake his head to stay focused. Bucky gritted his teeth, forcing himself to stand tall as he faced the Winter Soldier with a stoic expression.

"I'm not fighting you. You don't want to do this."

The soldier lunged at him, the murderous intent vivid as she raised a knife towards Bucky. Bucky, however, didn't raise his fists to continue fighting. Instead, Bucky grabbed onto her wrists and pushed back while hissing out roughly.

"This isn't who you are anymore."

His teeth were clenched, and Bucky locked eyes with the soldier despite the frost crusting her eyelashes.

"You know me. You know I've been where you are. I am where you are, but I got out, and you can too. You don't have to stay here!"

The soldier froze, but just for a second. Her eye twitched, a flickering echoing through them, and she lunged back before a gun materialized within her hand. It flickered and glitched; unstable, but it didn't matter to the soldier. Pointing it at Bucky, her voice was small; sounding almost muffled and distorted as she asked.

"Тогда почему мне все еще больно? Почему мне все еще так холодно?" (Then why do I still hurt? Why am I still so cold?)

Bucky's eyes softened, and he whispered to the soldier.

"Because just like me...you forgot the sunlight too...somewhere along the way, you forgot...but you told me that even if you forgot the sunlight, you wanted to remember that you chose to stand in it. Don't you remember?"

The soldier seemed to glitch a bit, a pained expression coming across her eyes, and the gun within her hand began to falter; shards of glass shooting out from the metal, and Bucky pushed forward.

"It's time to let her go."

The Winter Soldier shot her gaze up, an angry look on her face as she exclaimed.

"Отпустить? Отпустить? Те, кому нужно отпустить, это ты!" (Let go? Let go? The ones who need to let go are you!)

Suddenly, the ground split open beneath them; jagged edges tearing across the floor like veins. The lab twisted, warping into a horrendous medley of half-woods, half-cell; shards of every memory colliding into one another, spinning in the mirrors like a storm. Strange yelled a warning to Bucky, and the man brought his hands up to shield his face from the blistering cold wind.

"I can't do that."

Bucky shook his head, and the Soldier let out an angered cry, lunging at him again. Her movements, however, were desperate; sloppy and wild. She was leaving herself open, and Bucky grabbed onto her hands again. Instead of pushing back, however, Bucky embraced her tightly.

She began to yell, beating and thrashing against him as she continued to yell in Russian, and Bucky held onto her tightly, whispering.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I couldn't save you."

The soldier faltered for a moment, and she then bit down onto his shoulder harshly; teeth sinking in and blood bursting around the soldier's teeth. Bucky winced, but just held on as tightly as he could.

"I'm sorry that you never had the life that you wanted."

She was starting to tear at his skin, and Bucky grit his teeth in pain before he exclaimed.

"I'm sorry that I let you forget."

Tears filled Bucky's eyes as he whispered in pain before her teeth began to release his shoulder.

"Please...please don't leave me too."

The soldier was frozen, limp within his arms, and she cried softly.

"I don't know who I am anymore."

However, before Bucky could say anything more, the soldier's body slowly began to turn into dust; materializing into nothing. The mindscape slowly began to settle, the furniture no longer glitching, the mirror shards slowly retreating out of existence, and the room was no longer as freezing cold as it had been.

Just behind the Mind Chair, a cell door slowly opened up. However, Charles, Strange, and Wanda were all taking breathers as Bucky looked down at his hands that still held a few pieces of dust of the soldier; a solemn look on his face and the pain in his shoulder beginning to ebb up his neck.

The pain in the soldier's voice had been genuine, and Bucky was taken back to a time when he, too, was distraught over his inability to remember his life before HYDRA after reuniting Steve albeit with hostility.

Her eyes had held so much pain and grief that it had rattled him deeply. Clenching his fist, Bucky's nostrils flared and he took a deep breath, his voice rough as he stalked towards the cell door.

"We need to keep moving."

Wanda glanced at him, asking.

"Bucky, are you alright?"

Bucky paused for a moment before he answered.

"I just want to find her. If we stay here any longer, something else might happen. We don't know what Tony and the others have been able to accomplish yet. If they haven't been able to deactivate the failsafe, we're just sitting ducks and waiting for the next round."

Strange nodded a long, stating.

"Bucky's right. If we can reach (Y/n), then we might be able to have a better chance at subduing the Winter Soldier again if she reappears."

Charles hummed, nodding as his eyes glanced around the lab; watching as the last puddle of ink slowly disappeared into nothing.

"Yes, I agree. If we reach (Y/n) before another possible reactivation loop, then we might be able to break her free of the chains that bind her."

Wanda was quiet, subtly wiping her nose free of blood that had begun to trickle down; wincing slightly as she stumbled a bit. Strange glanced at her, concern in his eyes before he looked at Charles.

"If there is even a her left."

Charles gave Strange a disapproving look, but Strange didn't pay any attention to him. He was watching Bucky and the way his fists were clenched, his balance swaying slightly from the pain, and Strange pursed his lips into a thin line.

The trio began to follow after Bucky, and Bucky wasted no time in swinging the cell door open. Charles' eyes widened, and he stated quietly as he looked at the room.

"This...this is where I reached her."

Bucky shivered slightly at the freezing temperature of the room, frost and ice covering every surface. There were complete mirrors all around the room, some blackened and some covered with frost; obscuring the image within, and snow was falling down from the ceiling.

Bucky's breath left his chest as he laid eyes upon (Y/n), who was lying on her side and slowly being covered by the snow. A distant echo of the singing voice of Doris Day was gyrating around the room, and (Y/n)'s frostbitten lips were subtly mouthing the lyrics.

Bucky made his way towards (Y/n), and while he did, the snow and frost beneath his boots began to melt; lush green grass slowly starting to sprout. Bucky ran to the cell door of the cage, but when he tried to use his right hand to rip the cage door off, he yelped when bars burned him from how cold they were.

Instead, Bucky grabbed with his left arm and gave a loud yell as he single-handedly ripped the door from the hinges. The door embedded itself into the wall opposite of the cage; sinking into the concrete almost like putty.

Carefully, as gently as Bucky could, Bucky placed his arms around (Y/n) to slowly lift her up. The snow that was covering her body slowly began to melt from the warmth that was emitting from his body. His facial expression softened, relief coming over him before he became concerned again.

She seemed to be almost completely frozen, her body rock-solid despite the subtle movements of her lips, and Bucky was gentle as he brought her close; pulling her out of the cage. As Bucky enveloped her in his warmth, the frostbite began to slowly dissipate. Her breathing became more apparent, and when her body no longer felt as though it was in a state of rigor mortis, she became limp as Bucky held her close.

"(Y/n)?"

The ground beneath him was starting to sprout more grass; subtle sprigs of baby's breath sprouting around him, and (Y/n)'s eyes slowly fluttered for a moment. She looked exhausted, as if she had been sleeping for a long while, and when her tired eyes met Bucky's, (Y/n) whispered.

"Bucky?"

Bucky couldn't help but to let out a relieved little laugh, his eyes growing wet and nostrils flaring as he nodded down at her.

"Hey, beautiful. Gave me quite the scare there."

Slowly, the darkened room began to light up a bit; glimmers of light filtering over the walls as (Y/n) began to become a bit more aware. She relaxed in Bucky's hold a bit, resting her head against his shoulder as she spoke weakly.

"It got so cold...I couldn't...reach out. I couldn't stop it."

Bucky shushed her quietly, shaking his head as he brushed his hand over her cold cheek.

"I know. We all know. It's not your fault, baby girl."

His skin warmed her cheek up considerably, and (Y/n) seemed relieved to feel the warmth as she sniffled softly; gazing up at him.

"I just wanted to do what was right...I never meant to hurt anybody."

Bucky was firm as he stated, shaking her just the slightest for emphasis.

"It's okay. I'm here now."

(Y/n)'s eyes filled with tears, and she whispered to Bucky softly.

"I almost forgot you...I was terrified that I would never see you again."

Bucky swallowed a bubbling cry, whispering gently as he brushed his hand over her cheek again; cupping it gently.

"Nothing would ever keep me from reaching you. I'm here to stay, to help you remember...and if you forget, I'll remind you. However many times it takes, however long it takes."

As Bucky spoke, the frost on the mirrored walls began to weep, melting into rivulets that shimmered with the brightened sunlight. Grass bloomed further, and from the corners of the room, birdsong began to echo; faint, but growing. Within the melody of the birds, children's laughter began to whisper. (Y/n) sniffled softly before she looked up to Bucky.

"Can we go home?"

Bucky nodded, and through the fatigue, he picked her up bridal-style. As he turned around, the door that the group had gone through was now a familiar door engraved with Wakandan emblems; sleek with black and gold.

Familiar voices began to filter through the door: Steve's teasing tone, Natasha's gentle Russian, Clint's joking voice, Sam's motivational words, Thor's thunderous laugh, Peter's shy reminiscing, Tony's confident quips, Bruce's hesitant offers, Shuri's scientific lingo, and T'Challa's amused laughter.

As Bucky stepped toward the door, each footprint left behind not frost, but flowers. Baby’s breath, white lilies, yellow daisies; little blooming things where there once was snow. As the group approached, the Wakandan door opened on its own, releasing a warm breeze that smelled faintly of jasmine and ozone. The laughter grew louder, more real, and light engulfed the group as they finally made it out.

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[milf--adjacent]

why do so many M/Ls love gen-AI suddenly it's straight up perplexing to me. luddite that i may be. anyway other question, do you have any opinions based in theory yourself since you're opposed to gen-AI (as am i) whether it being anarchist/communist etc

Having nuance and learning about something to properly understand it isn't being "in love" with something. It's normal adult behavior. How capitalists use a tool isn't inherent to the tool. Gen AI has (and has long been used) for many valid, disparate applications such as doing busy work for animators and drug discovery. Ever use the magic wand tool in photoshop? That's technically gen AI by today's definitions. The tool itself has no moral value. Why do people consistently mistake the actions of capitalists with the tools they use to try and make a quick profit? Do you not keep up with science and tech? Just because chat GPT is stupid and horrible doesn't mean *checks notes* a computer program that is somewhat related is also stupid and horrible. Learn to listen instead of making assumptions and feeling false superiority based on them.

[ivyblossom]

Lessons in Story: Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is not an element of story, and yet here we are.

I'm aware that AI is bad for the environment. So's tumblr. That's all true. I'm also aware that AI scrapes copyrighted material like google does. I'm aware of how it steals art for its knowledge base without compensating artists and uses is as a model and replacement for skills. That's bad. I'm not going to address any of that here.

I have been observing how people talk about using AI in various parts of their writing process at the same time as I'm been trying to understand my own process and the obstacles I'm facing, and these two topics have oddly collided.

As I've said previously, my background is in some kind of woo woo where narrative comes out in one whole piece. So the fact that writing is many different and iterative pieces is something I had to figure out in my own bizarre way, but at the moment I now understand the basic process to be in these four general stages:

dreaming/planning (coming up with characters, ideas, goals, worlds, etc.)

outlining (not to say that this isn't many sub-stages, all of these steps are big catagories)

writing (actually putting words into sentences so your story exists)

Editing (revising, restructuring, polishing, etc.)

Are there more steps that I'm not accounting for? Those are the stages as I understand them. You can move back and forth through these stages throughout the process, so it's not necessarily linear, though it could be. For me, the key has been embracing the fact these are all radically different activities that require a completely different headspace, different skills, sometimes different tools, and a different perspective on narrative. That has been freeing revelation, because I was trying to do most of it at the same time.

But here's what else I've learned:

Dreaming/planning: this is a zero consistency space when it comes to how close or how far away you are from your protagonist. Are you feeling what they feel, or are you 30,000 feet up looking at the task they have in front of them and the path they're going to take? Or are you somewhere in between? Kind of all of the above at different points.

Outlining: in my experience, this can and should include emotional through lines, but outlining usually focuses on the 30,000 foot view. I have personally never written an outline that didn't miss critical details because of the 30,000 foot gap between me and the protagonist when I outline.

Writing: this seems like the very closest and most intimate you get with your story and your protagonist, right? This is where you live through it with them in extreme detail. There is no distance between you and them, you have to use a telescope to see 30,000 feet up. I find I have to revise my outline in small ways because I often underestimate or overestimate what something's going to feel like on the ground. This is like a micro-discovery phase: not plot discovery, emotional and intimate detail discovery.

Editing: I'm not an expert at this, but so far I feel like it goes back to being extremely inconsistent. It's either very close in a different way, or 30,000 feet up, or various in-between levels, depending on the type of editing or revision. And sometimes it's none of those, it's completely outside looking at how many times you use the word "feel" or whether your verbs and nouns agree.

Right. So people try to insert AI to do the graft for one or more of these stages.

AI in stage 1: I've seen some folks talk about using AI to get ideas for stories. I don't understand that, ideas are the easiest part of this process, as far as I can tell. Life's a rich pageant, maybe that's not universally true. Now, having AI to help you refine an idea, I can see that. Especially if you ask it to point out tropes and cliches as you go. Is that bad? Is that cheating? I dunno.

AI in stage 2: I've never seen anyone say they do this. If you have an amazing and complete story idea and you want to shaped into a 3 or 5 act structure, or a hero's journey, etc. I'm sure AI could do that, but that's mainly just typing. That's like AI as workbook. Is that cheating? I dunno. Does an AI generated outline help you? Or do you just skip the thinking that would have created the details of your story? Hard to say.

AI in stage 3: The wildest version of using AI in the creation of fiction, and there are whole subreddits for it. This is the people who are constructing novels scene by scene by telling AI to write it for them to their specifications and then "heavily editing" the result. So they are ostensibly doing stage 1, 2, and 4 themselves, and are outsourcing stage 3, the hard graft. Though I'd be very surprised if they aren't also using AI for stage 4, but let's assume they aren't.

Stage 3 is the only part of writing process that is protected by copyright, so it's a weird one to outsource. It's also the stage, in my experience, where you do micro-discovery, the in-the-moment scene details and the actual, living emotional experience of your story that you can't completely capture in outline. So if you just animate your outline without living through the story with your characters, it's always going to feel emotionally 30,000 feet in the air, I think. Right? If you feed AI an outline, that's what you'd get. i think doing this is just avoiding doing the most intimate and immediate discovery process of creating a story, and I don't think that serves the story or the writer (or "writer").

I'm intrigued that people think you can do this and it makes sense. You'd have to believe that the writing process is simply describing the contents of your outline, but I don't think that's true. It's like trying to get from the twelfth floor to the first floor by skipping the stairs, the elevator or the escalator and just leaping into the air assuming you'll land just fine because those intermediary systems are just time-wasters anyway.

I've read some arguments that using AI for stage 3 is something people with disabilities need to get their stories out into the world. As a neurodivergent person, I think that's short-sighted and is a disservice to those stories. I'm pretty sure it's just skipping the work of living through the emotional through line of the story and just not making all the little decisions and constructing the tiny details that go into the telling of a story. That's a heck of a missing staircase. Outlines aren't stories. Skipping the writing part means you're missing 2/3rds of the discovery, and therefore 2/3rds of the richness and depth of the story. How does that serve disabled voices? I don't buy it.

AI in stage 4: the one that looks innocuous but is actually dangerous. Dumping your work into AI and having it fix everything for you. This is a bad idea. Dump your work in there if you want to, but have it tell you what it's finding that needs adjustment so you can make decisions about it yourself. Copying and pasting out of an AI engine means you aren't making decisions about it, you're deferring decisions to a machine. That's the fastest way possible to erase your own voice. I can see getting it to flag things it has questions about, but taking AI advice on your writing is way too trusting.

I think this is especially dangerous for writers who don't have confidence in their own voice. AI's voice may seem like a better chose to them, and that's really sad.

I have more to say about AI, but this is more than enough for now.

[spacenutspod]

In a quiet part of Northern California, where pine trees brush the sky and the hum of giant satellite dishes fills the air, something big is happening in science education. A new wave of college students is getting the chance to explore the universe — not through textbooks, but with real data from a world-class observatory. Thanks to a growing program called ARISE Lab, students and teachers from community colleges are diving deep into the science of space, radio signals, and the search for alien life. The SETI Institute, which focuses on the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence, has expanded this groundbreaking effort. With new support from a grant by the Amateur Radio and Digital Communication Foundation, the ARISE Lab (Access to Radio Astronomy for Inclusion in Science Education) is now reaching even more classrooms across the country. Making Space Science Hands-On The main idea behind ARISE is simple: when students get to do science themselves, they understand it better and stay interested longer. “Hands-on experiences are proven to improve student engagement and retention,” said Dr. Vishal Gajjar, a radio astronomer who leads the project at the SETI Institute. That’s why ARISE puts real scientific tools directly into students’ hands. The Allen Telescope Array at Hat Creek Radio Observatory. (CREDIT: Luigi Cruz) The program uses GNU Radio, a free and open-source software that lets users process radio signals. This gives students a way to study actual data from the SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array (ATA). The ATA is the first and only radio telescope in the world built just for detecting signs of advanced life beyond Earth — also called technosignatures. With these tools, students don’t just read about pulsars, spacecraft, or distant stars. They study them. They learn to sort signals, find patterns, and understand how astronomers listen to the sky. What the ARISE Curriculum Offers Dr. Gajjar and his team built the ARISE curriculum using something called experiential learning technique, or ELT. This method focuses on learning by doing. Students start with pre-lab reading, move through guided lab work, and then reflect on what they discover. Related Stories How podcasts are revolutionizing health education and behavior Groundbreaking discovery promotes verbal learning and fights memory loss New AI-based learning system provides personalized math instruction for students ARISE includes two types of content: modules and labs. Modules are more complete packages that come with slides, notes, reading materials, lab manuals, and instructor guides. They are designed to be added directly into a science class. Labs, on the other hand, are shorter, standalone activities that can be used by themselves or as part of a larger lesson. The labs cover a wide range of topics. Students might explore signal modulation — the way information travels through radio waves — or learn how data science applies to astronomy. Each lab has step-by-step instructions that make it easy for both students and teachers to follow. By linking lessons to the search for extraterrestrial life, ARISE grabs students’ attention. Research shows that this subject sparks more interest than almost any other topic in science. “With ARISE, we’re combining cost-effective tools like GNU Radio with one of the most captivating topics in science — the search for life beyond Earth — to spark curiosity and build skills across STEM disciplines,” Gajjar said. Vishal Gajjar, SETI Institute. (CREDIT: SETI Institute) Real Tools, Real Signals, Real Skills The ARISE team doesn’t just give students data and walk away. They create chances for them to experience what it’s like to work in space science. “Whether it’s detecting a signal from a Mars orbiter or analyzing pulsar data, students are gaining real experience with tools used in both professional astronomy and industries,” said Joel Earwicker, the project’s lead research assistant. “It’s about making science feel real, relevant, and achievable.” That real-world feeling is what sets ARISE apart. It connects students with data from the Allen Telescope Array, a set of 42 dish antennas located at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory. This array scans the sky daily, looking for faint radio waves that might come from intelligent life in space. Students learn how to filter out “noise” from human-made signals, track moving sources across the sky, and identify natural phenomena like pulsars — stars that blink like cosmic lighthouses. These skills mirror what professionals do in both astronomy and tech careers, building a direct path from the classroom to the workforce. Students examine live radio signals from deep space, learning to decode real astronomical data using modern tools and guided scientific methods. (CREDIT: SETI Institute) Growing the Program in 2025 After the program’s first pilot workshop at Hat Creek in 2024, the results spoke for themselves. Teachers loved it. Students stayed engaged. The SETI Institute decided to grow the effort. In 2025, ARISE will offer: 15 new labs on topics like astronomy, digital communications, and data analysis 2 hands-on workshops at Hat Creek to train instructors from community colleges On-site lab support at 10 schools to help teachers roll out the new content The team will also host an in-person workshop for six selected community college teachers from June 25 to June 27, 2025, at Hat Creek. These instructors will get travel and lodging covered. At the workshop, they will visit the telescope site, watch live observations, test out lab activities, and collaborate with other science educators. SETI efforts around the world. (CREDIT: SETI Institute) This expanded effort aims to bring advanced science training to places that often get left out of big research programs — local community colleges. These schools educate nearly half of all undergraduates in the U.S., and their students often come from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM fields. By targeting these schools, ARISE gives more people a chance to be part of space science. It also helps instructors bring fresh energy to their classes. Looking Up, Reaching Out When students see real data from space scrolling across their screens, something clicks. Science becomes more than just facts in a book. It becomes a search — one they can be part of. With ARISE, the SETI Institute is changing how students learn science. Instead of memorizing equations, they explore the universe. Instead of just hoping to understand radio signals, they decode them. By giving students the tools, data, and support to study space firsthand, ARISE opens doors — to science, to careers, and maybe even to the stars. Research findings are available online on the SETI Institute website. Note: The article above provided above by The Brighter Side of News. Like these kind of feel good stories? Get The Brighter Side of News’ newsletter. The post New SETI program helps students detect signs of advanced life beyond Earth appeared first on The Brighter Side of News.

[otogariado]

i am always skeptical of media where the monstrous creatures of evil are painted as irredeemable and truly inhuman because they aren't capable of thinking and feeling like humans—it's easy for it to fall into so many -isms, notably ableism and racism. it's like the age old argument against robots except make it fantasy, and to have it painted in such a cut and dry way sets off alarm bells.

but i think the way frieren (the show) handles its demons and the concept of them only being able to mimic human speech and other parts of human culture and not understand it is actually good. in that, intrinsically, frieren (the show) is about human connection. they put a lot of emphasis on human understanding as well as compassion. and i think it's fundamental that frieren (the character) is presented the way she is—an elf who is also inhuman, but is so very human in her sentience anyway. she doesn't perceive a lot of things similarly to humans because of the gap between her morality and the morality of humans, but still she is able to shift her perspective the more she interacts with people and the world around her and the more she opens up to it. when your main character is presented as an "outsider looking in" and is going through an arc of self-(re)discovery, it changes the game when you introduce demons.

at first i was heavily against demons being painted in such a frank way. it's been a while since i watched that arc when it was released, but since then i think the concept of the clones in the dungeon during the second exam in the exam arc adds more insight to it. the clones don't have actual minds, but try to perfectly recreate them instead. and now i understand and accept it. you can mimic and recreate a person from the ground up so perfectly, but it comes with the caveat of no matter how perfect your mimicry is, if it's all logic and algorithms then that's just not human. even if a person is very logical and rational in their way of thinking, people are imperfect. there's always factors that influence how we think and feel (even if we're someone who doesn't 'feel' as much as other people), "noise" that would count as human error. and that's something the demons never account for. as people have put it, how terrifying is it to recreate something without fundamentally understanding it.

and now it's very interesting how timely this theme is in frieren with regards to discussions about the (mis)use of AI and topics like AI art. it's a whole other discussion entirely, but it's really fascinating timing that these discussions kind of align. i don't believe AI is inherently "evil" (and i don't like how most people talk about it like it's a boogeyman) because ultimately it is supposed to be a tool and it depends on those who program it and wield it. but i firmly believe that AI is not meant to replace humans, because it just can't. it's meant to augment our lives for improvement but never completely replace anyone. AI art in particular can almost be related to frieren directly: AI art is generated through an algorithm. yes, AI follow decision-making algorithms and that's how it learns and comes up with outputs. but ultimately these decisions could never come close to the thought process a real human could have. an AI can mimic a pattern it sees from a certain artist, but it can never recreate the artistic vision that the original artist had that lead to that very specific decision. and people are inconsistent; it's only natural to us humans. the downfall of AI is that since it is decision-based, it has to follow a certain set of rules, and that in of itself already hinders it from ever coming close to humans. because humans are constantly changing, and people can react to an event they're re-experiencing differently than they did originally. i used to hate onions as a kid and now i love eating them. do you think demons have a concept of that in the universe of frieren?

[shadowofthesun123]

How I use AI in my artworks and what I think about AI in general

I think it’s time to have this conversation because questions keep coming up more and more often.

I know that many people here don’t like AI or completely ignore it. In this post, I’d like to share my personal view on the topic and also answer the question of whether I use AI in my artworks.

Let me start with the simpler question. The answer is “yes,” I do use AI tools in some of my artworks. However, none of them can be considered fully AI-generated.

Sometimes, I use AI to create backgrounds or silhouettes, but I completely change the faces, like here: https://pin.it/2RUhZKz4S.

Other times, almost everything is AI-generated, for example: https://pin.it/N8apDmpfz.

Sometimes I use face swap technology, faceapp for hairs, etc.

I also have arts created fully without AI, but the faces there are based on real photos of Hunter and Jenna and edited with filters.

For example:

https://pin.it/1DZvBcKVw, https://pin.it/5wAdQvIFe, https://pin.it/19G1mffb6.

In general, I use anywhere from 3 to 5 or more tools for my artworks, including AI.

Some cases wouldn’t be possible for me to create without AI because I simply don’t have the technical skills yet. Others, on the contrary, are impossible to get from AI, no matter how hard you try, so I go back to good old collage techniques and hand-drawing.

Now, about my attitude towards AI overall.

You may like it or not, but it’s now part of our lives, and ignoring it is no longer an option. No AI boycott will stop its development. Almost any app nowadays has inbuilt AI tools.

I’m currently on maternity leave, but even in my professional field, AI is already widely used, and when I return to work, I’ll either need to know how to use it or fall behind the industry. That’s why I’m studying AI, and I do enjoy the possibilities it offers.

That said, I don’t deny there are issues - copyright concerns, as well as serious problems with fraud and fakes it can enable. As a mother, I’m terrified by the thought that someone could use my voice or image against my children. Now we have to be much more careful with what information about ourselves we put online - photos, videos, audio.

AI also creates a lot of low-quality content. But there was also low-quality content before AI.

As for writing, I don’t use AI there. It’s terrible at creative writing, plus that’s a space I want to keep entirely my own.

However, I do use ChatGPT to help write and translate tons of bureaucratic emails in a foreign language (which is, unfortunately, necessary when living abroad), and this saves me time to do what I actually enjoy, including writing.

One of my favorite YouTube videos from last year is about scientific breakthroughs of 2024. It’s in Russian, so I won’t link it here, but it mentions how AI, thanks to its ability to process massive amounts of data and detect patterns, has already helped scientists with several discoveries. For example, it helped identify a substance that might be effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It also contributed to a breakthrough in forensics related to fingerprint analysis, among other things.

Of course, AI makes mistakes, it’s often inaccurate, and everything it produces needs double-checking. But it can also be useful. That’s why I disagree with people who view AI as pure evil.

I use it for art, video projects, web design, and official correspondence, languages learning. Even though I try to keep up with AI trends, it evolves so fast that it’s impossible to follow everything - it updates literally every day.

It can be used for bad things (fraud), but also for good (scientific research). I’d say how I use it is somewhere in the neutral zone. I hope it doesn’t harm anyone - and maybe even makes someone happy.

So, I will continue creating art, including with the help of AI, and in my next post, I’ll tell you about my experiments with AI videos.

I’m open to discussing this topic - but please, be polite.

[markdayag]

The Top 5 Tech Trends That’ll Change Your Daily Life

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Think of this you’re rushing to finish a presentation, task, assignment, and your AI assistant drafts the slides while suggesting a dinner recipe based on your fridge contents. Artificial intelligence (AI) Helps people to make work loads easier and less time. AI isn’t just for tech giants. Small businesses use tools like ChatGPT to write emails, while apps like Mid journey help designers brainstorm visuals in seconds.

QUANTUM COMPUTING

Quantum computers are one the technology trend evolving now a days, this are poised to solve problems traditional computers cannot think accelerating drug discovery, creating super-efficient materials, and cracking unbreakable codes .

By 2025, these machines could optimize supply chains, simulate complex systems, and unlock Advance Artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. While still in its early stages, quantum tech is the future of computing .

BLOCKCHAIN AND DEFI

Imagine buying concert tickets without worrying about scams because blockchain verifies every resale. Or a farmer in Kenya getting paid fairly for coffee beans because blockchain tracks the supply chain.It’s not just Bitcoin! In 2025, blockchain could secure medical records, speed up home purchases, or even prove you own that viral TikTok meme. Block chain and Decentralized finance (DeFi) are tech trends that allows you to lend, loan, and treading services with anyone across internet Anywhere and everytime without worrying in scams because here your money will be safe.

5th AND 6th GENERATION

Thinks of video-calling someone but instead of seeing his tiny face on a mobile phone screen, He/she's life-sized hologram is sitting on your couch talking with you that feels like you're talking to him/her in person. 5G is already here, making your internet super speedy—no more buffering during Zoom calls and sufficient way of communicating online, But 6G on the other hand is way more advanced Think holograms so real you can almost touch them, and virtual reality so immersive you can feel the fabric of that online dress before you buy it. Isn't it Great?

GREEN TECH REVOLUTION

The urgent need for climate action is fueling a green tech revolution. Renewable energy sources like solar and wind are becoming cheaper and more efficient, thanks to technological advancements. Beyond clean energy, a circular economy is emerging, minimizing waste and maximizing resource use through carbon capture, sustainable materials, and precision agriculture. Technology is crucial to this transformation, acting as a catalyst for change across all sectors, from energy grids to farming practices. The future of sustainability depends on continued innovation and the widespread adoption of green technologies. Even though technology is evolving the care for the planet is still there by inventing various technology that helps in reducing the use of electricity and making it environment friendly.

[b0rgpup]

The Rise of the AI Anxieties

We are living through a unique cultural moment where the discourse around Artificial Intelligence is becoming increasingly polarized. On one side, there's unbridled optimism; on the other, a deep-seated fear that manifests as everything from legitimate ethical critique to outright hostility towards its users. Concerns about its environmental impact, the centralization of corporate power, privacy, and worker displacement are not just valid; they are critical challenges society must navigate.

However, history is filled with examples of transformative technologies that sparked similar fears. The printing press threatened the scribe's livelihood, the factory threatened the artisan's, and the digital camera was seen by some as the death of "true" photography. Yet, in each case, the technology ultimately created more opportunity, more wealth, and more creative potential than it destroyed. The question, then, is not whether AI has potential downsides, but whether its potential upsides for the vast majority of people outweigh them. This is precisely where the ethical framework of utilitarianism becomes so useful.

A Brief History of the "Greatest Good"

Utilitarianism as a formal school of thought emerged during the 18th and 19th centuries, most famously with the philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. At its core, it is a form of consequentialism—meaning it judges an action's morality based on its results or consequences.

The guiding principle is simple and profound: the most ethical choice is the one that will produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

Crucially, utilitarianism was a progressive and revolutionary philosophy. Its proponents advocated for social reforms like the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, and the decriminalization of homosexuality because they correctly calculated that these changes would vastly increase the total sum of human well-being and decrease suffering. It is a philosophy of forward momentum, focused on building a better future for all.

The Utilitarian Case for Embracing AI

Applying the principle of utilitarianism to AI, we are ethically compelled to weigh the total potential happiness against the potential suffering. While the risks are real and must be mitigated, the potential benefits are staggering in scale and scope.

AI is poised to revolutionize healthcare, a primary source of global suffering, by amplifying human health and longevity. Its models can drastically accelerate drug discovery and improve diagnostics by detecting diseases from medical scans with superhuman accuracy, making early screening more accessible and effective. From a utilitarian view, contributing to even one major cure would create an incalculable reduction in suffering.

Beyond health, AI provides a new class of tools to address humanity's most complex global challenges.

The massive data centers required to train AI models contribute to global emissions, but this challenge does not negate AI's potential. Instead, it frames the utilitarian objective: to leverage AI to create environmental efficiencies that far outweigh its own energy costs. It can help mitigate climate change by optimizing energy grids for renewables, bolster food security through precision agriculture, and aid disaster relief by analyzing satellite imagery. The goal is to ensure that the combined utility of a more stable climate, a secure food supply, and effective crisis response is a clear net positive for humanity.

Democratizing Access and Opportunity

Furthermore, AI acts as a powerful lever for democratizing opportunity, creativity, and productivity. This democratization is especially profound when considering accessibility, a point often lost in mainstream critiques. Many arguments against AI are framed from a neurotypical and able-bodied perspective, inadvertently dismissing the transformative power these tools represent for millions. For individuals with learning disabilities, AuDHD, or other forms of neurodivergence, AI serves as a vital accessibility tool. It directly supports users by acting as an executive function aid, a text-to-speech reader, or a way to organize and process information into knowledge. In this context, AI isn't a shortcut that undermines "real" work; it's an indispensable support that makes it possible in the first place.

This support extends profoundly to individuals with physical disabilities. For the blind and those with low vision, AI-powered apps can narrate the visual world through a phone’s camera, describing objects, reading text, and even recognizing faces. For the deaf and hard of hearing, AI provides real-time captioning of conversations and can power hearing aids that intelligently isolate voices from background noise. Beyond sensory assistance, AI is revolutionizing mobility. It drives smart prosthetics that learn and adapt to a user's movements for more natural control, and it enables voice-command systems that give individuals with motor impairments control over their digital and physical environments. By leveling the playing field in these fundamental ways, AI allows a vast, often overlooked, segment of the population to participate more fully in education, the workforce, and society.

Just as the camera gave artists a new medium, generative AI offers creative professionals a powerful suite of tools for ideation, experimentation, and production. More profoundly, it gives an independent creator or entrepreneur the capabilities of a small corporation. Repetitive tasks that once required entire departments—from generating marketing copy and social media schedules to creating video storyboards and processing sales leads—can now be automated. This frees up the human creator to focus on high-level strategy, artistic vision, and building client relationships.

For many people struggling to make a living, this newfound efficiency can be the crucial factor that allows them to move from merely surviving to thriving as a small business or independent professional, enabling them to bring more ambitious projects to life and compete on a scale previously unimaginable. For the utilitarian, this empowerment of individuals and reduction of inequality is a massive net good, fostering a more knowledgeable and creative global society.

Conclusion: A Call for Responsible Progress

The utilitarian calculus for AI is clear: the potential for good is immense, but it is not guaranteed. Achieving that greater good requires a collective, conscious effort from all sides of the debate.

To those who detract and resist, consider your own future. AI by itself will not replace you anytime soon. More likely, you risk being displaced by humans who actively and skillfully integrate these tools into their workflows. The pragmatic choice is not to build walls, but to learn the landscape.

To AI’s zealous promoters and the creators of endless, low-effort "slop," the message is simple: slow down. The race to generate quantity over quality erodes the very promise of this technology. True value lies in thoughtful application, not automated noise.

To the companies driving this revolution, please stop rushing terrible, half-baked AI products to market. Each flawed release diminishes public trust, making it harder to realize the profound benefits we've discussed. Meta’s AI products, for example, are all terrible and generally useless. Ethical development and rigorous testing are not obstacles to progress; they are the only way to ensure it is sustainable.

Finally, to those who mock or harass others for using these tools, it's time to consider a broader perspective. What is easily dismissed as a toy or a cheat code is, for many, a vital accessibility tool—a bridge to communication, education, and independence. Such judgment often reveals a profound lack of awareness about the diverse needs that exist in our society. Policing how others achieve their goals helps nobody and often serves only to marginalize those who benefit most from new technology.

The most ethical path forward is not to retreat in fear or to advance with blind zeal. It is to create and move forward with purpose, to actively and thoughtfully steer this powerful new technology toward maximizing the well-being of all humanity.

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i think AI can be hugely helpful in certain fields (like, for instance, scientific discovery) when it's done right, but we (scientists) have a moral obligation to make sure our AI-based tools are actually doing what they're supposed to do, but if all else fails we can just gleefully watch one of our professors evicerate the latest AI-based tool on twitter until the programmers get their shit together and fix it

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You talked about drug discovery technologies by ai, could you share some sources on that? Thanks

like with neural network technology in general? that shit's been going on for decades:

from the peer reviewed 'european Journal of Medicinal Chemistry': The use of neural networks in drug discovery started at the end of the 1980's when they were applied to various chemical problems" ... "Indeed, one of the first papers using a neural network for QSAR commented, “the prediction ability in addition to the easy operation indicates that the neural network will be a valuable tool in developing new drugs.”

or for stuff specifically with the fairly newfangled (mid 2010s) ai transformer models which all the new stuff is using:

from the peer reviewed 'Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis' (tho they're also NIH funded if you are based tinfoil hatter) Leveraging the innate capabilities of transformer architectures to comprehend intricate hierarchical dependencies inherent in sequential data, these models showcase remarkable efficacy across various tasks, including new drug design and drug target identification

that all said, finding specific examples of drugs that we wouldn't have discovered without ai is difficult as so much goes into drug discovery, ai is far from a silver bullet and is simply another tool in researchers belt, an example of a drug ai helped us discover is ATH-063, a small molecule therapeutic targeting both inflammation and direct mucosal healing in patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease and here is Athos confirming they used ai in its discovery

take all this with a grain of salt and read the articles yourself (i just skimmed them) as i aint a scientist or anything :P

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New diagnostic tool will help LIGO hunt gravitational waves

Machine learning tool developed by UCR researchers will help answer fundamental questions about the universe.

Finding patterns and reducing noise in large, complex datasets generated by the gravitational wave-detecting LIGO facility just got easier, thanks to the work of scientists at the University of California, Riverside. 

The UCR researchers presented a paper at a recent IEEE big-data workshop, demonstrating a new, unsupervised machine learning approach to find new patterns in the auxiliary channel data of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO. The technology is also potentially applicable to large scale particle accelerator experiments and large complex industrial systems.

LIGO is a facility that detects gravitational waves — transient disturbances in the fabric of spacetime itself, generated by the acceleration of massive bodies. It was the first to detect such waves from merging black holes, confirming a key part of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. LIGO has two widely-separated 4-km-long interferometers — in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana — that work together to detect gravitational waves by employing high-power laser beams. The discoveries these detectors make offer a new way to observe the universe and address questions about the nature of black holes, cosmology, and the densest states of matter in the universe.

Each of the two LIGO detectors records thousands of data streams, or channels, which make up the output of environmental sensors located at the detector sites. 

“The machine learning approach we developed in close collaboration with LIGO commissioners and stakeholders identifies patterns in data entirely on its own,” said Jonathan Richardson, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy who leads the UCR LIGO group. “We find that it recovers the environmental ‘states’ known to the operators at the LIGO detector sites extremely well, with no human input at all. This opens the door to a powerful new experimental tool we can use to help localize noise couplings and directly guide future improvements to the detectors.”

Richardson explained that the LIGO detectors are extremely sensitive to any type of external disturbance. Ground motion and any type of vibrational motion — from the wind to ocean waves striking the coast of Greenland or the Pacific — can affect the sensitivity of the experiment and the data quality, resulting in “glitches” or periods of increased noise bursts, he said. 

“Monitoring the environmental conditions is continuously done at the sites,” he said. “LIGO has more than 100,000 auxiliary channels with seismometers and accelerometers sensing the environment where the interferometers are located. The tool we developed can identify different environmental states of interest, such as earthquakes, microseisms, and anthropogenic noise, across a number of carefully selected and curated sensing channels.”

Vagelis Papalexakis, an associate professor of computer science and engineering who holds the Ross Family Chair in Computer Science, presented the team’s paper, titled “Multivariate Time Series Clustering for Environmental State Characterization of Ground-Based Gravitational-Wave Detectors,” at the IEEE's 5th International Workshop on Big Data & AI Tools, Models, and Use Cases for Innovative Scientific Discovery that took place last month in Washington, D.C.

“The way our machine learning approach works is that we take a model tasked with identifying patterns in a dataset and we let the model find patterns on its own,” Papalexakis said. “The tool was able to identify the same patterns that very closely correspond to the physically meaningful environmental states that are already known to human operators and commissioners at the LIGO sites.”

Papalexakis added that the team had worked with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration to secure the release of a very large dataset that pertains to the analysis reported in the research paper. This data release allows the research community to not only validate the team’s results but also develop new algorithms that seek to identify patterns in the data.

“We have identified a fascinating link between external environmental noise and the presence of certain types of glitches that corrupt the quality of the data,” Papalexakis said. “This discovery has the potential to help eliminate or prevent the occurrence of such noise.”

The team organized and worked through all the LIGO channels for about a year. Richardson noted that the data release was a major undertaking. 

“Our team spearheaded this release on behalf of the whole LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which has about 3,200 members,” he said. “This is the first of these particular types of datasets and we think it’s going to have a large impact in the machine learning and the computer science community.”

Richardson explained that the tool the team developed can take information from signals from numerous heterogeneous sensors that are measuring different disturbances around the LIGO sites. The tool can distill the information into a single state, he said, that can then be used to search for time series associations of when noise problems occurred in the LIGO detectors and correlate them with the sites’ environmental states at those times.

“If you can identify the patterns, you can make physical changes to the detector — replace components, for example,” he said. “The hope is that our tool can shed light on physical noise coupling pathways that allow for actionable experimental changes to be made to the LIGO detectors. Our long-term goal is for this tool to be used to detect new associations and new forms of environmental states associated with unknown noise problems in the interferometers.”

Pooyan Goodarzi, a doctoral student working with Richardson and a coauthor on the paper, emphasized the importance of releasing the dataset publicly. 

“Typically, such data tend to be proprietary,” he said. “We managed, nonetheless, to release a large-scale dataset that we hope results in more interdisciplinary research in data science and machine learning.”

The team’s research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation awarded through a special program, Advancing Discovery with AI-Powered Tools, focused on applying artificial intelligence/machine learning to address problems in the physical sciences. 

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Investor Alert: Why the Gene Silencing Market Could Be the Next Big Thing

Introduction

The global gene silencing market is experiencing unprecedented growth, driven by advancements in genetic research, increasing prevalence of genetic disorders, and the rising adoption of gene-silencing technologies in therapeutics and drug discovery. Valued at approximately USD 3.7 billion in 2024, the gene silencing market is projected to expand at a CAGR of over 17.6% from 2025 to 2032, reaching a valuation exceeding USD 15.9 billion by the end of the forecast period. This rapid expansion is fueled by the increasing demand for RNA interference (RNAi), CRISPR-based therapies, and antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) for targeted gene modulation.

Breakthroughs in gene-editing tools, AI-driven bioinformatics, and nanoparticle-based delivery systems are accelerating innovation and adoption. The use of gene silencing in treating cancer, neurological disorders, and rare genetic diseases, alongside the expansion of personalized medicine and cell and gene therapy applications, continues to strengthen market growth. Additionally, strategic partnerships between biotech firms, pharmaceutical companies, and research institutions are propelling advancements in gene-based therapies.

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Gene Silencing Market Dynamics

Key Drivers

Growing Adoption of Gene Silencing in Therapeutics

Increasing application of RNAi, CRISPR-Cas9, and ASOs in gene therapy.

Expansion of precision medicine initiatives leveraging gene silencing for personalized treatment.

Rising Prevalence of Genetic Disorders and Cancer

Escalating demand for innovative treatments for hereditary diseases, cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders.

Emerging gene silencing applications in rare genetic conditions and metabolic disorders.

Advancements in Gene-Editing Technologies

Enhancements in CRISPR-Cas systems for precise genetic modifications.

AI-driven bioinformatics for target identification and therapeutic development.

Strategic Collaborations and Investments in R&D

Increased funding for gene therapy research from public and private sectors.

Expansion of contract research organizations (CROs) and biotech partnerships.

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Gene Silencing Market Challenges

Regulatory and Ethical Constraints

Stringent guidelines governing gene-editing technologies.

Ethical concerns regarding genetic modifications and long-term effects.

Complexities in Gene Delivery Mechanisms

Challenges associated with targeted delivery and minimizing off-target effects.

Development of safe and efficient non-viral and nanoparticle-based delivery systems.

Gene Silencing Market Segmentation

By Technology

RNA Interference (RNAi) – Dominating with a 45.6% gene silencing market share in 2024, growing at a CAGR of 18.4%.

CRISPR-Cas9 – Fastest-growing segment at a CAGR of 21.2%.

Antisense Oligonucleotides (ASOs) – Significant adoption in genetic therapeutics.

DNA Methylation-Based Silencing – Emerging applications in epigenetic modifications.

By Delivery Method

Nanoparticle-Based Delivery – Leading with a 42.7% market share, growing at 19.6% CAGR.

Viral Vector-Based Delivery – Expanding at a CAGR of 18.9%.

Electroporation & Physical Delivery Methods – Increasing adoption in clinical applications.

Chemical Delivery Methods – Advancements in stability and efficacy.

By Disease Type

Cancer – Leading with a 38.9% market share, projected to grow at a CAGR of 19.7%.

Neurodegenerative Diseases – Fastest-growing at a CAGR of 20.3%.

Hereditary and Infectious Diseases – Expanding clinical applications.

Cardiovascular Diseases and Others – Rising demand for novel gene therapies.

By Application

Therapeutics – Dominating with a 60.4% market share, growing at 19.9% CAGR.

Research & Development – Expanding as biotech firms invest in preclinical research.

By End-User

Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Companies – Holding a 48.7% market share, growing at 18.8% CAGR.

Academic & Research Institutes – Increasing focus on CRISPR-based studies.

Contract Research Organizations (CROs) – Expanding service offerings.

Hospitals & Diagnostic Centers – Rising adoption of gene silencing diagnostics.

By Region

North America – Leading with a 46.2% market share, fueled by R&D investments and regulatory approvals.

Asia Pacific – Fastest-growing at a CAGR of 20.8%, driven by biotech innovations in China, Japan, and India.

Europe, South America, and Middle East & Africa – Steady market expansion.

Competitive Landscape

Key industry players include:

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals – Expanding RNAi-based therapeutic portfolio.

Benitec Biopharma Inc. – Partnering for next-generation RNAi therapies.

Phio Pharmaceuticals – Advancing RNAi-based cancer immunotherapy.

Avidity Biosciences, Riboxx GmbH, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), Dyne Therapeutics, Bit Bio, Comanche Biopharma, Thermo Electron Corporation, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Ltd., WuXi AppTec – Innovating in RNA-based therapeutics and strategic collaborations.

Emerging Trends and Future Outlook

Key Gene Silencing Market Trends

Expansion of Personalized Gene Therapies – Advancements in tailored treatments based on genetic profiling.

AI-Driven Drug Discovery – Integration of machine learning for gene target identification.

Development of Non-Viral Delivery Methods – Enhancing safety and efficiency.

CRISPR-Based Diagnostics and Therapeutics – Rapidly evolving applications in precision medicine.

Blockchain for Genetic Data Security – Addressing concerns related to data privacy and patient confidentiality.

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