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Many people traded privacy for convenience in the past but now the tide is turning. The Digital Chamber CEO Cody Carbone discusses this shift with Luke Mulks in a new episode of #TheBraveTechnologist podcast. Watch now: https://lnkd.in/eY_pR24g

Is your browser protecting you from fingerprinting? Websites collect information on your device and browser in order to identify you and track you across the Web. TweakTown's Yasir Mahmood tested four major browsers and found that Brave was the only one that was randomizing his laptop's fingerprint to protect his privacy. Our fingerprinting protections apply whether you're using a normal or private window. You don't have to adjust any settings or use any extra extensions. Privacy is the default with Brave. https://lnkd.in/e7ymWVCz

"Brave Software has set up a secure space so those using its browser can converse with the company's AI assistant in private."

Want to screenshot a moment in a video? A new Brave feature makes that easy: 1️⃣ Open the media player by clicking the music note icon on the toolbar. 2️⃣ Click the "Save video frame" button (it looks like a play button with brackets). 3️⃣ Choose where to save the image.

A new episode of #TheBraveTechnologist is here! On this week's episode, The Digital Chamber CEO Cody Carbone explains why regulatory clarity is vital to the long-term growth of the digital asset industry. Watch the full discussion, hosted by Luke Mulks, here: https://lnkd.in/eY_pR24g

Leo, the AI assistant in Brave, now offers end-to-end encrypted chat with GLM 5.3 Flash! Your browser encrypts each prompt before it leaves your device, so only an attested Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) can decrypt it. It's industry-leading privacy you can verify: https://lnkd.in/eDcvRpPk People often discuss sensitive subjects with AI, including their health and finances. With most AI services, those chats end up on someone else's servers. They can be used for training, linked to your profile, handed to courts, or leaked. You lose control of your conversations. We built end-to-end encrypted Brave AI to ensure your private conversations stay private. Brave and NEAR AI never hold a readable copy of your chats. Your history stays on your device. The model's maker never sees your words. Attestation proves which model is answering you. Too often, AI privacy comes down to a provider saying "trust us." But you shouldn't have to trust providers. You should be able to check their claims too. That's why we built AI with verifiable privacy. In November 2025, we brought confidential computing to Brave AI using NEAR AI's NVIDIA-backed Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). These TEEs encrypted user chats and created reports proving the correct model was used and that your chat was private: https://lnkd.in/eZBkgAha However, our work wasn't done. The privacy protections rested on policy, not cryptography. And Brave's servers checked the TEEs' proofs, so the verification itself meant trusting Brave. We had two goals: open-source every stage, and move verification closer to you. Today we accomplished those goals and more. Brave AI chat with open-weight GLM 5.3 Flash, running in NEAR AI TEEs, is now end-to-end encrypted. The code that verifies the TEE, encrypts your messages, and relays them is open source. Here's how it works... First, the TEE proves itself. Your browser only gets an encryption key after the server proves it's genuine hardware running the exact model and code you expect. If anything's off, no message is sent. Next, your browser locks your prompt so only that verified server can open it. It travels through a relay that sees your IP address but not your words. The server sees your words but never your IP. No one sees both.  Replies will come back locked, too. Finally, the AI runs inside the secure server, in hardware-protected memory that not even the cloud host can see into. If the AI searches the web, the query goes out from inside the server instead of your browser, so it's not tied to your IP. Queries are not stored. These privacy protections won't slow you down, though. In our testing, a 19.9-second chat request spent 297 microseconds encrypting the prompt and 5.76 milliseconds decrypting the streamed reply. End-to-end encrypted Brave AI chat is available today in all channels (Nightly, Beta, and Release). To get started, select "GLM 5.3 Flash" from the model selection menu in Leo.

You can now stack tabs in split view so one appears on top of the other. ☺️ Just click the split view icon to the left of the address bar and select "Show stacked." To change it back, click "Show side by side" in that menu. Quick refresher on split view: To make a split view, right-click a tab (or select two tabs) and select "Add tab to new split view." You can also right-click a link and choose "Open link in split view." Click and drag the line in the middle to adjust the size of the tabs. Split view is a handy feature for work and fun so we hope you're using it!

The demand for privacy is growing. Shielded Labs engineering manager Mark Henderson discusses this shift and what it means for Zcash's future in a new episode of #TheBraveTechnologist podcast. You can listen to his full talk with Brave's Luke Mulks here: https:// brave.com/podcast/e141/

Brave is the best way to watch YouTube but it's ALSO the best way to listen to YouTube. 🎧 The browser supports background play on Android and iOS so you can keep listening to videos when you're viewing other apps or when your screen is locked. To use this feature on Android, go to Settings -> Media and make sure "Background play" is enabled. On iOS, this setting is called "Enable Background Audio" but is also located at Settings -> Media.