What happens when you combine a febrile information environment, a battered market for software stocks and the rise of prediction markets such as Polymarket, which have gamified corporate rumours?
In the case of Australian software giant Atlassian, you get wild speculation that the company is a live acquisition target of Anthropic.
There is, as of now, no reason to believe the rumour is true.
And yet it persists. That may have more to do with Atlassian employees seemingly determined to will it into being.
