Agency

    agents · reasoning · planning

    Abstract illustration of a digital archive with stacked documents and a search beam scanning through them
    Agency · Agent memory

    Dedicated memory for AI agents often underperforms simple retrieval, study reports

    A large-scale evaluation suggests that the way memory systems reorganise an agent's history can hide evidence, a cost the authors call memory tax.

    arXiv preprint · 25 October 2026
    A digital assistant interface surrounded by faint fragments of past conversations and everyday icons for food, travel, finance and software
    Agency · Agent memory

    Benchmark finds AI agents remember conversations but struggle to infer user habits

    A test built on hundreds of synthetic sessions finds the best agent memory method answering only about a third of habit questions correctly.

    arXiv preprint · 20 October 2026