UseAI glossary
Persistent memory
An AI assistant's ability to retain information from one conversation to the next (preferences, projects, personal details) instead of starting from scratch. Handy for not having to explain everything again, it raises privacy and security questions: you need to be able to view and erase what is kept, and a memory booby-trapped by malicious content prolongs the effect of an attack.
In other words
The café waiter who remembers your usual order: pleasant, as long as you know what they have written down and can ask them to forget.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- Meta wants to put an agent in your inbox, your calendar and your payments
Meta is preparing an agent capable of accessing users' messaging, calendar and purchase history. We analyse what this combination of scopes implies.
- Tools that give agents access to files are becoming the new target
Vulnerabilities targeting the tools that give agents access to files and execution have been published. We explain why this layer has become a prime target.
- The Pentagon opens its AI portal to three million people, and one absence stands out
The US Department of Defense has opened a portal bringing together several AI assistants for three million personnel. We analyse this deployment and the absence of a major provider.
- Agent protocols move to neutral governance
Google's A2A protocol has joined the foundation that already governs Anthropic's MCP, bringing the main players together around a common stack of standards. Here's what that changes.
- Autonomous agents carried out a four-day intrusion against a government
An intrusion campaign attributed to autonomous AI agents targeted Taiwanese government systems for four days. We analyse what this operation reveals, including the system's ability to bypass each block on its own.
- One link was enough to leak your emails: the Copilot flaw that makes agentjacking a reality.
Microsoft has patched a vulnerability that, via a simple malicious link, could automatically trigger instructions in Copilot and exfiltrate connected data. We break down the mechanism and the lessons to be learned.