News · Learn · November 7, 2026
When your AI company is bought, your memory goes too
In December 2025 Meta bought Limitless, the maker of Rewind. What happened to its users shows why AI memory needs an owner who cannot be bought.
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In December 2025, Meta acquired Limitless, the company formerly known as Rewind, which made a pendant that recorded and transcribed conversations and desktop software that made a person's screen searchable. Here is what it meant for people who used it, and what to do about it.
What was announced
According to press coverage of the deal:
- The pendant stopped being sold to new customers, with support for existing ones continuing for at least another year.
- Features that did not involve the pendant, Rewind among them, were to be sunset.
- Users were offered a way to export their data, and to delete it.
- Those who continued had to accept an updated privacy policy and terms of service.
The company said that users' data would stay safe. Coverage did not say how the new owner would handle it in the long run. We do not claim to know either.
The pattern
None of this required anyone to behave badly. It is simply how products work: a company holds your memory, a bigger company buys the company, the product changes, and your memory is subject to new terms. At best you get an export button and some weeks to use it.
The more an assistant knows, the more valuable that memory is, and the more it is worth to whoever owns it next.
What changes when the memory is yours
- Sealed on your device. Memory is encrypted on your machine with keys you hold. A company that buys a service cannot buy keys it never had.
- Kept by nodes that cannot read it. Storage is sealed blocks on independent nodes.
- Agents are guests. An AI uses your data under a grant you signed, for a stated purpose and an expiry, and each use leaves a receipt.
- Open source, governed by a DAO. Ghostdrive is released under Apache-2.0 and MIT, and decisions are one person, one voice on the kernel board. There is no single owner to sell.
What to do now
Whatever tool you use, ask three questions: Who holds the keys? What happens to my data if the company is sold or shut down? Can I take everything with me, in a format I can read? If the answers are "they do", "unclear" and "no", it is worth moving the memory that matters.
Be honest about our own limits
Ghostdrive is young. Its contracts are on the Base Sepolia testnet and not yet audited, mainnet is planned for 6 March 2027, and if you lose your 24 words, no one can recover your vault. Holding your own keys is a responsibility as well as a protection.
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