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Another Brave User-First AI Win: Leo adds End-to-end Encryption, Oblivious HTTP, and Verifiable Confidential Computing

Leo chats with the open-weight GLM 5.3 Flash model are now end-to-end encrypted with Oblivious HTTP and run inside attested, Nvidia-backed Trusted Execution Environments, so even Brave can't read…

What a pizza-ordering hackathon reveals about connecting AI agents to the Web

Participants in a hackathon hosted by popular AI newsletter AlphaSignal used the Brave Search API to build an autonomous agent, and get that agent to reliably act in the real world.

Brave for Desktop Outperforms Other Browsers in Speed and Performance

New tests on macOS show Brave for desktop outperforms Chrome, Edge, and Firefox in page-load speed, CPU, memory, energy, and network use. This post includes the full methodology and results.

Brave Accounts: your password never leaves your device, ever.

Brave Accounts is a brand-new way to sign into Brave services like Email Aliases. Built on the OPAQUE cryptographic protocol, your password is never sent to our servers—not encrypted, not hashed—so…

Brave launches Email Aliases to keep your personal email address private from websites

Starting with desktop version 1.94, Brave is offering Email Aliases to let you sign up for online services without revealing your personal email address. Aliases forward to your primary inbox,…

Brave improves protections against GPU fingerprinting

Starting in version 1.93, Brave is rolling out new protections against GPU and graphics-driver fingerprinting, de-identifying WebGL vendor and renderer strings and adding noise to the list of…

BAT Roadmap 4.0

BAT Roadmap 4.0 evolves the Basic Attention Token, Brave Rewards, and Brave Creators for the transactional attention economy, introducing agentic payments, a unified Brave Wallet, the BravePay…

Brave Place Search API: The Google Maps Alternative That Costs 6–7x Less

Brave's improved Place Search API matches Google Maps on quality in real-world tests, at 6–7x lower cost—$5 per 1,000 requests on an independent index built for maps, apps, and AI agents.

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Brave’s latest browser release offers Containers for better and easier workflow

Today's Brave browser release (v1.92) adds built-in Containers on desktop, letting you isolate tabs so cookies and storage aren't shared—making it easy to manage multiple accounts or separate work…

Claude Cowork on Amazon Bedrock with Brave Search: bringing real-time Web intelligence for your organization

In this post we dive deep into how to configure the Cowork desktop application with AWS Bedrock, and how to add Brave Search as the local MCP server for interactive, user-driven workflows.