# Anthropic opens privacy-preserved Claude usage data tools to outside researchers

_Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 1:12 PM EDT · Science, AI · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Anthropic said it has given external researchers a way to study AI impacts using privacy-preserved data from Claude usage. The company said this type of work had previously been possible only inside AI labs and that it opened its tools to outside researchers. The post does not specify the researchers, data scope, access terms, or methodology.

## Sources

- [Anthropic (@AnthropicAI)](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2092661573223657834)

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