Coral Wire — Tue, Oct 20 2026

The Coral Index closed at 57/100 — Mixed signals. 48 graded stories fed that reading.

• New French literary prize is open only to books written with AIAI — Entrants must declare on their honour that the work was made with AI, and file the model and prompt they used.
• Copyright suits against AI companies reach 150 totalLegal — Two new Meta suits push the count past a milestone, and both target physical-book scanning as infringement, not just shadow-library downloads
• Four justices recuse, leaving top court unable to hear PRH caseLegal — The Fifth Circuit's January ruling now stands, with no quorum available to review it
• Canada's biggest newspapers sue Anthropic over Claude training dataLegal — Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press filed the claim October 6, alleging scraping and broken terms of service
• DistroKid pulls indie songs amid Universal copyright lawsuitLegal — Artists report frozen royalties and copyright strikes with little explanation of what they allegedly infringed

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