27 August 2026

Anthropic shares Claude data and watermarking research with universities

First reported

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  • Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, gave Stanford, Oxford, and METR access to conversations Claude has had with users for academic study.
  • Early research found that more than half of these conversations involved high-stakes decisions where users sought legal or financial advice from Claude.

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