Coral Wire — Mon, Nov 2 2026
The Coral Index closed at 29/100 — Storm warning. 5 graded stories fed that reading.
Cate Blanchett coalition says AI licensing is not impossibleLegal — The 31-page amicus brief, filed Friday in the NYT's OpenAI suit, says century-old collective licensing frameworks already solve the problem OpenAI calls unsolvable
Maas launch draws 1,500 events, ALLi points indies to fan community buildingMarket — Of the 1,500 US and Canada events for A Court of Splintered Harmony, 150,000 tickets were sold, ALLi's Dan Holloway reported.
Novelist traces fake fan mail scam to Philippines addressCommunity — Joe Dunthorne followed a $500 scam request from a fake "Berlin Book Club" founder to a street address in the Philippines, The Guardian reported
France launches AI prize as UK's SoA exits its own charterCommunity — The Prix Pascal requires disclosure and a reproducible method, while the Society of Authors withdrew from the Ethical AI Charter it launched eight days earlier
Publisher group tells court AI visits fell 26 percentMarket — DCN's new amicus brief pairs that member-reported drop with Microsoft's own "doom loop" language from the case record.