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New testing confirms that Brave for Android is outperforming the competition. 🏆 It's faster, uses less battery and CPU, and consumes less mobile data and Wi-Fi bandwidth than other major browsers. We conducted performance tests with a Google Pixel 6a using our open-source BLaDE infrastructure. In the tests, we measured Brave against four competing browsers: Chrome, DuckDuckGo, Edge and Firefox. Here's what we found 👇 Battery and CPU: Brave uses 3.9% less energy than Chrome, Edge, and Firefox and 5.5% less CPU on average. It uses 23.7% less energy and 17.6% less CPU than DuckDuckGo. On review, we found a resource management issue in DDG that we shared with its team: https://lnkd.in/eVZAQbbC RAM: Brave uses, on average, 31.1% less memory than DuckDuckGo, 9.8% than Edge, and 40.1% than Firefox. Brave's RAM usage is 4.6% higher than Chrome. This gap is mainly due to our native ad and tracker blocking. We're currently working to lower this memory usage. Page load speed: Brave consistently outperforms the other browsers in this test. Brave has the fastest overall load time distribution, and loaded over 80% of the pages in less than 2.5 seconds. Bandwidth consumed: Brave used up to 34% less inbound data and 55% less outbound data than DuckDuckGo, and up to 16% less inbound and 51% less outbound than the other browsers. Our browser minimizes data usage by blocking unwanted requests. You can read more about the performance test's results and our methodology in today's blog: https://lnkd.in/e8jJ3eAH We plan to run similar tests for desktop and iOS in the future. We'll also periodically re-run these tests to ensure Brave maintains its high performance.

Your browsing isn't private if Windows 11 is taking screenshots of everything you do. Brave will block the controversial feature Microsoft Recall by default with our v1.81 update: https://lnkd.in/eGsa5wbN Recall screenshots the user's desktop to help them search through past activity. These images are saved locally, which means that they could be seen by anyone with access to the PC. Security researchers proved that this data could be remotely stolen: https://lnkd.in/eWnq7eWY Microsoft has made some positive changes to Recall to address the privacy concerns. Giving Recall unrestricted access to users' browsing activity is still too risky, though. The best way for us to protect our users is to proactively disable this feature. Microsoft says that Recall won't snapshot private browsing windows. Brave tells Windows 11 that ALL activity in our browser is private so that even normal windows won't be screenshotted. Brave is the only major Web browser that disables Microsoft Recall by default in all tabs. If you want to use Microsoft Recall with Brave, here's how to disable this new protection: 1) Go to Settings > Privacy and security 2) Turn off "Block Microsoft Recall."

This week's guest on the #TheBraveTechnologist is Jared Phillips, CEO of GolfN. GolfN is an app that allows users to earn rewards for playing golf. Key topics on this episode: - How GolfN is growing the Web3 community with Web2 audiences - The evolution of golf apps and GolfN’s early success in acquiring users, including $200k in paid memberships in their first month - How GolfN balances social, convenience, and privacy when designing for users Watch the full episode, hosted by Luke Mulks, here: https://lnkd.in/egX75dZu

The Brave Search API is now available through the new AI Agents and Tools category of the AWS Marketplace! This release makes it easier for developers to easily add our search capabilities to empower their agentic AI efforts. Search Engine Journal has the full story: https://lnkd.in/e8g8Spq3

On this week's episode of #TheBraveTechnologist, learn how GolfN designed its app to appeal to traditional golfers who aren't crypto savvy yet. Listen to Luke Mulks's full chat with Jared Phillips, CEO of GolfN, here: https://lnkd.in/egX75dZu

🎉Our official, new and improved Brave Search MCP server is live!🎉 Quickly and easily build AI apps and agents that can search the Web for sites, images, videos, and more. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/ektChTxH 🚨PSA: If you’re using the old Brave Search server by Anthropic, please note that it’s been archived.🚨 To update to the new and official server from Brave, replace @modelcontextprotocol/server/brave-search with @brave/brave-search-mcp-server in your config files and you’ll be all set! Here are some guides for great ways to get started with the Brave Search MCP server: https://lnkd.in/eW-UwC6u Let us know what you’d like to see as part of the MCP server— and since we publish OSS, consider contributing your ideas on Github!

Want to join the Brave team? We're hiring a Systems & Performance Researcher/Engineer to shape and improve our performance evaluations and optimizations across desktop and mobile. If you’re passionate about innovation, privacy, and delivering impactful AI solutions, this is your opportunity to make a difference. Learn more about this role here: https://lnkd.in/e9y4h5X7 If you know someone who would be perfect for this opportunity, please tag them in the replies!

What do AlphaSense , Fortinet, and Brave all have in common? Today they all announced their availability within Amazon Web Services (AWS) NEW Marketplace for AI Agents and Tools. Why is this awesome? This launch changes the game in terms of how our customers can access and deploy cutting-edge AI solutions. AlphaSense is revolutionizing market intelligence with their AI-powered search platform combining millions of premium documents with advanced GenAI features. Brave’s search API is providing customers with the only independent search API in the market to power chatbots, search grounding, and research tools. Fortinet is enhancing cybersecurity with AI-powered threat detection and response, helping organizations stay ahead of evolving risk. Today our customers will be able to accelerate their AI journeys through the Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace where the ability to discover, search, and integrate just became easier. One of the AMAZing things about being a part of this incredible ecosystem is the ability to connect customers and partners together to imagine and build what’s next. Learn more below! https://lnkd.in/g8pQXwtw

Today the Brave Search API is available in the new AI Agents and Tools category of AWS Marketplace. This launch allows AWS customers to easily add our search capabilities to empower their agentic AI efforts. The Brave Search API is for building applications that benefit from having access to the Web, going beyond the static knowledge of AI models. Our index includes over 30 billion pages, kept fresh by over 100 million page updates every day. Our API currently supplies most of the top 10 AI LLMs with real-time Web search data. We're excited to release our Search API on the AWS Marketplace and make it more accessible to developers innovating with AI. Learn more about today's launch here: https://lnkd.in/ekfFz7dz

Brave collaborated with three universities on a research paper about how machine learning models can be manipulated to justify discriminatory practices. The paper also suggests a way to detect and prevent this manipulation using zero‑knowledge proofs of verified inference. The paper is being presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning today: