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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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, enabling seamless cross-chain swaps across Bitcoin, Solana, Zcash, Cardano, and EVM chains—no bridges or manual gas handling required.
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.
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.