Coral Wire — Fri, Nov 6 2026
The Coral Index closed at 28/100 — Storm warning. 19 graded stories fed that reading.
Strand Bookstore ordered to pay $1.5 million over Covid loanLegal — The loan at issue was a $932,350 Paycheck Protection Program loan the store accepted while allegedly ineligible to receive it.
AO3 goes offline for up to four weeks after security breachPlatform — The Organization for Transformative Works says the outage is unrelated to the PHP flaws that recently hit other sites.
Goncourt winner admits using ChatGPT in prize-winning novelAI — Philippe Jaenada told France Inter he used AI three times in his novel, a day after collecting France's top literary prize.
Clarion West opens 2027 novel workshop applications in NovemberWire — The nine-month online program runs March through November 2027 with tuition of $3,200 or $2,800 under its Helping Hands rate.
Copyright roundup: October brings new AI suits and at least 50 amicus briefsLegal — The Copyright Alliance reported twelve new AI copyright infringement cases filed in October and over fifty amicus briefs filed by October 30 in the OpenAI MDL.
Library ebook pricing fight could fracture Libby wait times by stateMarket — Libraries pay about four times retail for ebooks and audiobooks, and bills in Illinois, New Jersey and other states aim to change those terms.
Judge presses music publishers for specifics in Anthropic suitLegal — U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee asked for additional briefings after questioning how publishers picked 20,517 works as examples of infringement.
Alcon settles Warner Bros. Discovery claim over Blade Runner AI imageLegal — Alcon continues pursuing its copyright case against Tesla and Elon Musk over the same AI-generated image