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Brave Software, best known for its Brave browser, laid off 9% of its workforce in an effort to manage costs amid difficult economic conditions. The job cuts affected departments across the company.

Arjaldo Karaj, the Director of Product at Brave Search. talks to us about its new feature that offers an independent alternative to searching for images and videos on the internet.

Brave Search says its new in-house image and video search index will allow it to offer accurate search results in these areas while also maintaining its private and anonymous search features.

The Brave Search API is now live. The service is free for companies and developers for limited use but also offers several paid tiers for those who have more demanding requirements.

Brave Search has announced that its search results are now completely from its own index. It no longer accesses Microsoft's Bing API, which previously generated 7 percent of its results.

Brave has issued a status report about its Basic Attention Token (BAT). It said Brave Ads saw higher click-through rates than the industry average. The company also set out the future of Brave Ads.

Brave Search has a new feature now called Summarizer which takes information from webpages and presents relevant information coherently using a large language model, similar to what ChatGPT uses.

Brave Search now features Discussions in search results. Discussions are sourced from forums like Reddit and attempt to provide improved and more diversified results that stay relevant to the query.