Mark Henderson, Engineering Manager at Shielded Labs, shares what it looks like to build privacy infrastructure on a hundred-year time horizon. He also breaks down two of Shielded Labs' most significant technical bets: the Network Sustainability Mechanism, and Crosslink. Mark makes the case that financial privacy and surveillance-based business models are structurally incompatible—true privacy means building systems where the choice not to look is enforced by the protocol, rather than a company promise.

Large language models are frozen at their training cutoff, so they hallucinate on anything recent or specific. Web grounding fixes that by feeding a model live, cited web content at query time. In this article, learn how to do web grounding with Brave Search API.

Howard Wu, CEO of Provable and Shield Wallet, makes the case that full, on-chain transparency was never a design principle—it was a limitation that mainstream finance cannot build on. He draws a direct line from the internet's switch from HTTP to HTTPS to where crypto needs to go next, and argues that the biggest obstacle to private stablecoins isn't the technology. Instead, it's the assumption that compliance and privacy are fundamentally at odds.

Juan Leon, Senior Investment Strategist at Bitwise Asset Management, returns to the show to share how much the convergence of traditional finance and on-chain infrastructure has accelerated since our last conversation—and what the data behind that shift actually shows. He breaks down why vaults represent the next evolution in fund wrappers beyond ETFs; what distinguishes sustainable on-chain yield from the opacity that drove past cycle failures; and where AI agents fit into the future of institutional asset management on blockchain rails.

Danit Nativ Navon, Senior Software Engineering Manager at Meta, unpacks how the company became the first major tech firm to build AI-enabled coding interviews. She breaks down the process of rethinking what engineering interviews actually measure (now that AI can write the code itself), and explains why the leadership qualities that matter most now look nothing like the skills these interviews were originally built to test.

Andrew Pelekis (CEO of HEEBOO) and Nicholas Cabana (Co-Founder of Claynosaurz and Chief Creative Officer at HEEBOO), break down how a Solana-based digital collectibles brand and a small team of Hollywood animators grew into an entertainment franchise now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. They unpack the decision to give 15% of company equity back to collectors; how selling products funds content production; and why treating fans as co-owners (not just customers) became their unlikely path to overcoming Web3's biggest adoption hurdle.

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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.

David Kinitsky, Chief Corporate Development Officer at Everstake, shares what distinguishes this cycle of enterprise crypto adoption from every previous one, and why the shift matters. He explains why staking is a foundational infrastructure play, not just a yield product; what institutional due diligence on staking looks like in practice; and why the prevailing narrative around tokenization misidentifies the real unlock. He also lays out a longer-term thesis: that AI agents will eventually manage personalized financial portfolios for everyday people at the level currently reserved for the most sophisticated wealth management clients.

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.

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.

Navin Vethanayagam, Chief Brain of IQ and Co-founder of KRWQ, unpacks his “Stablewoods” theory; why non-dollar stablecoins like KRWQ, the first Korean won stablecoin, may end up reinforcing dollar dominance rather than challenging it; and how IQ.wiki’s AI editor SOPHIA—and their agent AIDEN—turned a static blockchain encyclopedia into living infrastructure.

Steve Gregory, CEO of Binance.US, shares what it actually takes to bring a compliant crypto exchange product to market in the US. He explains how his background as a compliance lawyer shapes the way he leads product decisions; why the US crypto user has been underserved on leverage and derivatives for too long; and how Binance US is quietly positioning itself as a bridge between DeFi and the world of centralized exchanges.

This article will discuss the Google Search API shutdown and Brave Search API as an alternative, and give a practical how-to guide for workflow migration from one to the other.

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.

Joel McKelvey, VP of Product Marketing at Glean, shares why the enterprises winning with AI right now aren't the ones chasing the latest model—they're the ones who got their context layer right first. He explains why AI has moved from experimentation to company-wide production almost overnight, and why the biggest mistake enterprises are making is one they'll only recognize in hindsight.

Natalia Konstantinova, Lead Enterprise Architect in AI at Natwest, shares why most enterprise AI projects don't fail because of the technology, they fail because organizations skip the foundations. She also explains how responsible AI and scalable AI have converged, and why you can't achieve one without the other.

A guide to using the Brave Search API as a news API: how the /news/search endpoint works, the structured JSON it returns, real-time and global coverage, common use cases like news aggregation and AI grounding, and how to make your first call.

Dr. Mohsen Ghasempour, Chief AI Officer at Kingfisher, unpacks why the most dangerous thing a company can do with customer data is use all of it. He explains how a global, multi-brand retailer can draw the line between personalization that feels helpful and personalization that feels like surveillance. He also discusses why AI success is ultimately an execution problem rather than a technology problem.

Kam Karaji, Director of Cyber Security & Risk Management at the NFL, shares what 13 years in counter-terrorism and criminal intelligence taught him about protecting high-stakes environments, and discusses how that thinking now shapes security across five countries and 70,000-person stadiums. He explains why a venue full of fans is really just a very large computer, and why the data a fan hands over the moment they buy a ticket is more time-sensitive than most people realize.

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.

Definition of source attribution in the context of AI search, retrieval, and search APIs.

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.

Riccardo Arnaldi, Agentic AI Product Manager at Pandora, shares what it actually looks like to build and scale a brand-facing LLM shopping agent live with millions of customers. He explains why too much autonomy is a liability, how a deterministic routing layer keeps the AI from going off-script, and why traditional QA teams had to rebuild their processes from scratch. He also breaks down a real customer interaction that exposed the gap between automation and appropriate human sensitivity, changing how the team handles frustrated users.

Zach Shefska, Founder & CEO of CarEdge, shares how he and his father (a 43-year auto industry veteran) turned a broken, opaque car buying process into a transparency-first business powered by AI agents that now negotiate deals on behalf of consumers. He also explains how data collected from over 100,000 agent driven negotiations is reshaping what buyers can know before they even walk into a dealership.

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.

Harry Halpin, CEO of Nym Technologies, shares why the surveillance Web is more dangerous than most people realize, and why most privacy tools aren't enough. He explains how traditional VPNs still leave you exposed, why metadata is more revealing than the content of your messages, and how Nym's decentralized mixnet offers unique protection.

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).

Balazs Nemethi, CEO of the Agent Community, explains why AI agents need identities and why the window to decide who controls that infrastructure is closing fast. He breaks down how a community-governed effort is working to secure .agent as a top-level domain, and why domains are a smart foundation for agent identity.

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.

Whether you’re building agents, copilots, or RAG pipelines, success hingest on the quality of the data you can access in real time. That’s where Web search APIs come in. In this short article, we'll discuss the best search API options for 2026

Sam Lyman, Head of Research at the Bitcoin Policy Institute and former Senior Advisor and Chief Speechwriter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, shares what it looks like inside the U.S. Treasury when Bitcoin, stablecoins, and AI are being treated as strategic national assets. He explains why the current administration's approach marks a fundamental break from the Gensler era; how freedom tech is becoming a geopolitical tool to challenge authoritarian capital and information controls; and why the time to shape crypto and AI policy through legislation is now.

Ken Liu (Computer Science PhD at the Stanford AI Lab) and Erik Chi (CS PhD at UMich) are the Creators of the Open Anonymity Project, which lets people prove things about themselves online without revealing their identity. In this episode we explore what it means for AI systems to “know” you; why today’s so-called privacy modes fall short; and how the next generation of AI systems could be built with privacy as a default, rather than an afterthought.

Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet, shares how cybersecurity threats have evolved from data breaches to full-scale operational disruptions, and why modern resilience strategies must go beyond prevention. He explains why ransomware has fundamentally changed the stakes, how AI is rapidly expanding the attack surface, and what organizations are getting wrong about risk. He also highlights the human and cultural factors that remain the weakest link in security and why leadership is critical to driving real change.

Jourdan Hathaway, Chief Business Officer at General Assembly, discusses her experience integrating AI agents into her admissions team, including stories of real-world complexities, edge cases, and unexpected messiness of the implementation. We also explore the evolving AI skills gap and how companies have now shifted from expecting basic AI literacy to prioritizing skills like AI workflow design, critical thinking, and the ability to build AI-driven business solutions.

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.

Dr. Maha Hosain Aziz, an international relations professor at NYU and Global Foresight Advisor at the World Economic Forum, highlights the often-overlooked societal, economic, and psychological impacts of AI adoption. She explores the growing anxiety around job displacement and the emerging “occupational identity crisis” occurring as AI reshapes industries and how people define purpose and stability in their careers. She also reveals how shifts in world order, the rise of tech companies as powerful global actors, and increasing mental health concerns are all interconnected in the age of AI.

Or Eshed, co-founder and CEO of LayerX Security, shares why the browser has become the most critical (and overlooked) security layer in modern work. He explains key browser risk areas including phishing, cookie theft, compromised extensions, and data exfiltration, and how AI now increases the urgency around these risks. He also provides examples of real-world breaches that are reshaping how organizations think about risk.

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.

Anna Yuan, founder of Perena and former head of stablecoins at the Solana Foundation, discusses how Perena is designing new on-chain financial products, including USD*, a liquid yield token that earns continuously while remaining spendable. We also explore why trust remains one of crypto’s biggest challenges, how decentralized and traditional finance are converging, and what role AI agents may play in the future of payments and financial automation.

How Brave Software uses data to operate its websites, forums, and communications.

Now, it’s even easier to navigate to features in Brave browser, with a custom toolbar shortcut. The custom shortcut allows Android users on version 1.85 or above to create a one-tap link to various browser features. To create a custom toolbar shortcut: Open Brave, and tap “⋮” to open the menu. Tap Settings. Tap Appearance. Tap Toolbar shortcut. Create custom toolbar shortcuts

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.

Bri Teresi, host of ‘Free The Money’ and a prominent crypto influencer, shares the biggest misunderstandings about cryptocurrency in mainstream media and consumer behavior, along with the biggest challenges faced by content creators today. Topics include: the risks of platform dependency and censorship; the importance of self-custody and owning one’s own crypto keys; financial sovereignty and freedom from banks; and the need for better education in crypto to reduce scams and speculative investments.

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.