About this tag
Brave Leo is the built-in AI assistant in the Brave browser, and this tag follows how its privacy and security features develop. Coverage centers on Brave Software's rollout of end-to-end encrypted conversations for Leo across Release, Beta, and Nightly builds, an effort that builds on an earlier confidential-computing experiment. The discussion also touches on the models and transport technology behind these chats, including GLM 5.3 Flash and OHTTP, and on why sending sensitive material such as HR memos, medical reports, or internal PowerShell scripts to a cloud chatbot raises real questions about where that text ends up.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Brave Leo Adds End-to-End Encrypted AI Chats With GLM 5.3 Flash and OHTTP

    When you paste a sensitive HR memo, a perplexing medical lab report, or an internal PowerShell script into a browser-based AI assistant, where does that text actually go? For the vast majority of cloud-hosted chatbots, the honest answer is: onto somebody else's server in readable plaintext...