MEMORY IS PURPOSE

Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

Sentra CEO Ashwin Gopinath argues memory is not a sidecar to intelligence but the layer that decides what reality the reasoning operates on, with knowledge being what was present and memory being the subset of the past that should survive because it changes future behavior. The boulder problem illustrates that the same artifact becomes different memory for sales, product, legal, engineering, and CEO views, so freezing ontology at ingestion traps the system inside a frame that is prematurely right.