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"according to a person with knowledge of the company’s financials" is how professional journalists tell you that someone who they judge to be credible has leaked information to them.

I wrote a guide to deciphering that kind of language a couple of years ago: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/22/deciphering-clues/



Unfortunately tech journalists' judgement of source credibility don't have a very good track record




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