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Brave overhauls adblock engine, cutting its memory consumption by 75%

Jan 5, 2026

Brave has overhauled its Rust-based adblock engine to reduce memory consumption by 75%, bringing better battery life and smoother multitasking to all users.

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AI browsing now available for early testing in Brave

Dec 10, 2025

Today, we're announcing the availability of Brave's new AI browsing feature for early testing. This agentic experience aims to turn the browser into a truly smart partner, automating tasks and helping people accomplish more.

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Announcing the new Skills feature in Leo,Brave’s in-browser AI assistant

Dec 3, 2025

Today we're announcing a powerful new feature for Brave Leo: Skills. With Skills, your favorite prompts and AI-powered tasks are just a keyboard shortcut away.

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The .brave Website-Building Challenge

Dec 3, 2025

More than 1,200 builders stepped up to create, experiment, and push the boundaries of whats possible with .brave domains, Brave Wallet, BAT, and onchain Web experiences.

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Verifiable Privacy and Transparency: A new frontier for Brave AI privacy

Nov 20, 2025

Brave Leo offers a new capability for cryptographically verifiable privacy and transparency by deploying LLMs with NEAR.AI Nvidia-backed Trusted Execution Environments.

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Coral: Bridging Parsing and Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Nov 17, 2025

We introduce Coral, a system for proving in zero-knowledge that a committed byte stream corresponds to a structured object in accordance with a Context Free Grammar.

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The limits of zero-knowledge for age-verification

Nov 5, 2025

ZKPs are often advanced as a technical remedy, promising privacy-preserving attestations of age or eligibility. Yet their deployment in practice exposes both conceptual and practical limits.

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Prompt injection flaw in Opera Neon

Oct 31, 2025

Attackers can embed malicious instructions in hidden HTML elements and other non-rendered markup that remains invisible to users but is fully accessible to the AI assistant.

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Brave earns SOC 2 Type II attestation for Brave Search API

Oct 24, 2025

Recently, the Brave Search API underwent a thorough external audit, and earned our first SOC 2 Type II attestation.

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Unseeable prompt injections in screenshots: more vulnerabilities in Comet and other AI browsers

Oct 21, 2025

AI browsers remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks via screenshots and hidden content, allowing attackers to exploit users' authenticated sessions.

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The .brave domain Get Yours, Build Now website-building challenge

Oct 15, 2025

To celebrate, were giving away 15,000 BAT and $20,000 USD in .brave domain credits, premium domains like winner.brave, and more to the boldest and most creative websites built on-chain.

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Brave Rewards 3.0 Partner Program update: new merch, travel deals, and trading perks

Oct 10, 2025

Since its March debut, the Brave Rewards 3.0 Partner Program has continued to gain momentum, expanding Basic Attention Token (BAT) utility across Web3.

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Input|Output and Brave complete integration of Cardano in Brave Wallet

Oct 2, 2025

Brave's 100M+ monthly users can now manage Cardano assets, swap tokens, participate in on-chain governanceand more easily take part in Midnight's Glacier Drop claim and future NIGHT redemptiondirectly in Brave's built-in wallet.

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Brave browser passes 100 million monthly active users

Oct 1, 2025

Over the past two years, the Brave browser has seen an average of about 2.5 million net new users each month. This September, we officially surpassed 100 million monthly active users worldwide.

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Introducing Ask Brave

Sep 29, 2025

Today we're launching Ask Brave, a single interface that consolidates search and AI chat. It's free and available on any browser or platform.

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Membership Privacy Risks in LLMs

Sep 25, 2025

LLMs can memorize and leak training data, posing serious privacy risks. We introduce CAMIA, an assessment method tailored to the generative nature of LLMs.

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Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet

Aug 20, 2025

The attack we developed shows that traditional Web security assumptions don't hold for agentic AI, and that we need new security and privacy architectures for agentic browsing.

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Self-custody BAT payouts on Solana now open to all Brave Rewards users

Aug 14, 2025

In line with the BAT Roadmap 3.0, users now have full control over their BAT earnings, reflecting our commitment to building a more decentralized and user-first ecosystem.

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Introducing AI Grounding with Brave Search API, providing enhanced search performance in AI applications

Aug 5, 2025

With AI Grounding, responses are anchored in high-quality, factual information from verifiable Web sources, thus reducing hallucinations and responding more appropriately to nuanced inputs.

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Brave Rewards 3.0 Partner Program: July Momentum Update

Aug 1, 2025

Since its March debut, the Brave Rewards 3.0 Partner Program has continued to accelerate, expanding Basic Attention Token (BAT) utility across Web3.

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Brave for Android continues to outperform other browsers in speed and performance, based on recent tests

Jul 23, 2025

Brave publishes full methodology and results for tests vs competitors on Android platforms.

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