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Claude Cowork on Amazon Bedrock with Brave Search: bringing real-time Web intelligence for your organization
Jun 29, 2026
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.
What a pizza-ordering hackathon reveals about connecting AI agents to the Web
Sep 3, 2026
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
Sep 2, 2026
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.
Aug 27, 2026
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 it never leaves your device.
Brave launches Email Aliases to keep your personal email address private from websites
Aug 27, 2026
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, helping reduce spam and break cross-site tracking.
Brave improves protections against GPU fingerprinting
Aug 13, 2026
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 supported extensions.
BAT Roadmap 4.0
Jul 9, 2026
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 stablecoin protocol, a Brave Rewards Card, and a Creator Contribution Protocol.
Brave Place Search API: The Google Maps Alternative That Costs 6–7x Less
Jul 8, 2026
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.
Brave’s latest browser release offers Containers for better and easier workflow
Jul 2, 2026
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 and personal browsing, with no extension required.
Brave Rewards Partner Program 2026 update: more ways to use BAT in gaming, shopping, and beyond
Jun 15, 2026
This month's Brave Rewards Partner Program update introduces six new partners and shares milestones from existing ones, expanding how users can earn, spend, and use BAT across gaming, shopping, research, and more.
Indirect Prompt Injection remains a fundamental security challenge for AI
Jun 8, 2026
Instructions hidden in webpages and documents can hijack AI agents mid-task. Research shows indirect prompt injection hits cloud and on-device LLMs alike—local deployment doesn't eliminate the risk.
New Brave Origin premium experience offers users a minimalist version of the Brave browser
Jun 4, 2026
Meet Brave Origin, the minimalist browser Brave users asked for: industry-leading privacy and ad+tracker blocking, none of the extras, and a one-time purchase that works across all your devices (free on Linux).
AgentStop: Terminating Local AI Agents Early to Save Energy in Consumer Devices
May 28, 2026
AgentStop is a lightweight efficiency supervisor that monitors local AI agents in real time, predicts when they are heading toward wasted computation, and terminates unpromising runs early to save battery on consumer devices.
Brave’s unique Shred button now available for Android, letting users enhance their privacy by easily discarding tracking site data
Apr 22, 2026
Starting with version 1.89, Brave for Android brings Shred from iOS, so you can clear one site's data without logging out of others, with optional Auto Shred on tab or browser close.
Brave Search API approaches 700,000 OpenClaw users, highlighting the surge in machine-first search
Apr 1, 2026
Nearly 700,000 OpenClaw users have signed up for the Brave Search API, cementing Brave as the preferred independent search provider powering the leading open-source AI agent platform.
Brave Wallet now supports NEAR Intents
Mar 11, 2026
Brave Wallet now supports NEAR Intents, enabling seamless cross-chain swaps across Bitcoin, Solana, Zcash, Cardano, and EVM chains—no bridges or manual gas handling required.
Why Brave is opposing Google’s Android developer registry
Mar 6, 2026
Brave joins the EFF, the Tor Project, and others in calling on Google to withdraw its plan to require government ID from all Android developers, regardless of how they distribute their apps.
Privacy risks of agentic oversharing on the Web
Mar 5, 2026
Agents working on your behalf spill your data. Research finds it's common, asking them to be private isn't enough—and tightening privacy can actually improve results.
Brave Search API now features Place Search, a new endpoint for map applications
Feb 26, 2026
The Brave Search API now offers Place Search—a fast, granular endpoint for discovering businesses, landmarks, and more across over 200 million points of interest.
The Brave Search API shows exponential growth, emerging as the best search tool to power AI apps
Feb 24, 2026
The Brave Search API has seen exponential growth, emerging as the only independent, commercially available search API at scale—and the best option for powering AI apps.
zkLogin: when ZKP is not enough
Feb 13, 2026
Zero-knowledge proofs can't fix what they can't see. Our security analysis of zkLogin reveals that real-world ZK authorization systems are only as secure as the authentication infrastructure they're built on.