independent

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“Where Claude consistently stands out in independent evaluations is what researchers call ‘calibration’: knowing what it doesn’t know, and saying so,” says an Anthropic spokesman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Bearstar Strategies said in a statement last week that it had suspended all activity on Swalwell’s independent expenditure.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Brian Jabarian, a University of Chicago economist who conducted a rigorous independent evaluation of A.I. detectors, told me flatly, “This narrative that we shouldn’t use A.I. detection doesn’t seem to hold anymore.”

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

By generating interest and fee income, the services arms, which contributed approximately 40% of the company’s gross profit last fiscal year, represents an important source of cash-flow stability independent of the commodity price.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

When there is more than one independent melodic line happening at the same time in a piece of music, we say that the music is contrapuntal.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones