Major publisher kills $2.4M deal after AI use accusations

Hard-line publisher stance signals: AI transparency failures have real financial consequences for authors.

This story ran in the Coral Wire edition of Sun, Aug 23 2026, when the Coral Index stood at 25/100 (Storm warning).

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