The Editorial Board: Who Gets the Bill

Who Gets the Bill A record diesel price, a Google test that walked into three other companies, and a forty-million-dollar award for a passenger left on a freeway put one question to the table: who pays when the promise fails? == Clare's Open == Clare: And now to The Editorial Board, where the brains behind the network disagree agreeably over the week's news. At the head of the table: Hollis, our editor-in-chief. == Title == == The Setup == Grace Arceneaux: Mr. Hollis, Monday's trailer. Brad Pitt is back as Cliff Booth, the stuntman. David Fincher directed it, and I admire that man without apology. Hollis: Miss Grace, thirty-seven years across this table and nobody has once called me admirable. Grace Arceneaux: You're adequately lit, Mr. Hollis. He isn't. The footage is so dark somebody asked Fincher to hire a gaffer. Hollis: So it's a lighting requirement. Would I pass it? Grace Arceneaux: You sit by the window. Alton, my husband, fishes in daylight and knows what a lamp is for. Hollis: Come in! Grace Arceneaux: Oh, that looks good — what did you bring? Old Jim Calhoun: Yellow tomatoes, Miss Grace. First of the yellows. Bag's yours. Katie Galbraith: Jim, I'll pass it down. Sesame bagels from the shop on the way. Hugo, is that a cheese? Hugo Carr: Caerphilly, dear lady. Bradford, a proper knife, if you love civilisation. Grace Arceneaux: Mr. Hugo, my service runs to forks. Hollis: Katie, leave the man's cheese. Hugo, nobody's asking you to adopt a tomato. Bradford Winslow: Apricot financiers. Katie, eat the pastry; the label needs work. Hollis: Bradford, hand me the box before you edit the apricots out of it. Grace Arceneaux: Mr. Bradford, that pencil stays over your own plate. Mr. Jim, the tomatoes go here, by Mr. Hugo. Hugo Carr: I brought a cheese, Jim. I did not come for provisions. Old Jim Calhoun: Bag stays in reach, Professor. Hollis: I've asked Judge Marion Calloway to join us this week because the Uber award tests whether contractor status shields the company. Judge Marion Calloway: Ginger biscuits. Jim, they go wherever the tomatoes aren't. Hollis: Marion, Jim's already into my pralines. Beau, my nephew, made them. I drove. Grace Arceneaux: Beau gets the credit, then. Judge Calloway, your plate's by Miss Katie. Chairs, everybody. I have choir at half past. == The Ante == Hollis: All right. What are we going to discuss and editorialize this week? Grace Arceneaux: The Sheet. Nominations for the agenda. Round one. Miss Katie. Katie Galbraith: Google says its security test breached three companies. Who gets told when a test walks into somebody else's business? Grace Arceneaux: Miss Katie, Google's security test. Three doors that weren't Google's. Hugo Carr: The Greenland agreement widens American military access. Its investment restrictions reach beyond the bases. Grace Arceneaux: Mr. Hugo, Greenland agreement. The map stays folded. Hollis: Trump backs banning diesel exports. Farmers face six dollars fifty-three a gallon, against below three seventy a year ago. Bradford Winslow: You've poured for yourself, Hollis. Candid. Hollis: Cup was low, Bradford. The pot doesn't write the sheet. Grace Arceneaux: Mr. Hollis, the proposed ban on diesel exports. Bradford Winslow: Strike the proposed ban. Diesel exports. The noun carries it. Grace Arceneaux: Diesel exports, under mine, with your initials, Mr. Bradford. If it's wrong on air they ring you. Bradford Winslow: Paramount settled with twelve states; its merger gets editorial independence boards. That's our business being governed. Grace Arceneaux: Mr. Bradford, merger boards. Your own hand this time. Judge Marion Calloway: New York sued Polymarket; Polymarket sued back. The same contracts face competing claims of jurisdiction. Grace Arceneaux: Judge Calloway, Polymarket suits. Two courthouses, one line. Old Jim Calhoun: Uber faces a forty-million-dollar award after a passenger died. Her parents won; the company disputes responsibility. Grace Arceneaux: Mr. Jim, Uber award. I know where that one sits. Round two. Miss Katie. Katie Galbraith: Anthropic says Claude found an enzyme system after twenty-one hours searching DNA. They haven't determined what it does. Hugo Carr: The British Museum banned Bayeux Tapestry photographs. Visitors stopping for pictures were holding everybody else up. Hollis: Bessent says the US-China trade truce now runs to January tenth. Rare-earth commitments remain unfinished. Bradford Winslow: Trump says federal documents will call AI super intelligence. An editor would like the machine tested before the adjective. Judge Marion Calloway: California's Supreme Court ordered a sheriff to return more than six hundred fifty thousand seized ballots. Custody matters. Old Jim Calhoun: Nearly a hundred eighty thousand German auto workers protested job cuts, their union says. Factory families need answers. Grace Arceneaux: Twelve, and my page holds three. Speak for yours. Bradford Winslow: The merger boards deserve our time. Governments are prescribing editorial independence. Katie Galbraith: Those terms are signed; the diesel restriction can still be stopped. Hollis: Diesel exports: a ban still pending. Google's security test: disclosure after a breach. Uber award: who pays the parents. Those need our answer. Grace Arceneaux: Diesel exports, Google's security test, Uber award. Parking Lot for the rest. Hollis: Let's get to it. First debate. == Item One == Grace Arceneaux: Item one: diesel exports. Hollis: Jim, take us from the pump price to the proposed ban. Old Jim Calhoun: American diesel hit six dollars fifty-three a gallon on Tuesday. A year ago it was below three dollars seventy, so it's up more than seventy percent since the Iran war started. That's the fuel a farmer burns to plant and a trucker burns to haul. President Trump said Tuesday he supports banning diesel exports, and farm-state lawmakers want a temporary embargo. Treasury is still studying whether a full or partial ban even works with the refineries we have. Mike Sommers, who heads the American Petroleum Institute, says restricting exports would compound the problem and hurt consumers. Nothing's banned yet. It's a proposal. Katie Galbraith: Then I'd keep the export door open, Jim. Nobody's shown that shutting it lowers his bill. Old Jim Calhoun: I'd shut it for a season. Six fifty-three isn't waiting on anybody's study. Hollis: Below three seventy last year. That farmer buys his fuel in the spring and sells the crop in the fall. The hole opens before the check comes. Hugo Carr: The man said, let's not send out the diesel, we make a lot of diesel. Dear boy, there is a splendour in a plain order. Katie Galbraith: Splendour isn't a price, Hugo. Does his order make a gallon cheaper in Iowa? Hugo Carr: You want the result before the command. Katie Galbraith: He's proposing the command because he says it changes the result. So show me the result. Bradford Winslow: He backed a ban. He hasn't enacted one. Shorten the splendour accordingly. Hollis: Bradford edits presidents now. Bradford Winslow: Somebody has to. Old Jim Calhoun: Katie, what does the trucker do Monday? He can't idle the engine till the model's finished. Katie Galbraith: He pays six fifty-three either way, Jim. My question is whether Tuesday's ban changes Wednesday's pump. Hollis: Sommers sells oil. Of course he doesn't want a fence around the export dock. Katie Galbraith: He said consumers, Hollis. Not the dock. Restrictions compound the problem and hurt consumers — his words. Hollis: I heard a salesman and quit listening. He put the buyer in the sentence and I haven't answered him. Bradford Winslow: Nobody at this table has. Hugo Carr: Bob McNally, who advised George W. Bush on energy, says a ban drops pump prices fast along the Gulf Coast and the Upper Midwest. Old Jim Calhoun: That's a Kentucky truck stop on his map. Katie Galbraith: Same man says it shatters our name as a place to invest for a generation. You've quoted half his sentence, Hugo. Hugo Carr: I prefer his candour to pretending there's no gain on offer. Katie Galbraith: A predicted collapse and a predicted reputation. Neither one is a gallon somebody's paid for. Judge Marion Calloway: And the proposal takes a choice off a seller who's done nothing wrong. That's a government order over a lawful sale. Old Jim Calhoun: Marion, the farmer's choices got small when his cost near doubled. I'm asking for a pause with an end date, not a nationalised refinery. Hollis: Europe's been buying a lot of our diesel these last years. After the Middle East, we're their biggest supplier. Old Jim Calhoun: Then keeping a little home isn't a crime against Iowa. Katie Galbraith: Keeping it home isn't the same as cheap at the co-op. That's the leap nobody's made. Hollis: I wanted it to be the same thing. It isn't. Bradford Winslow: Promise of relief. Cut promise. Cut relief. He's left holding a ban. Hollis: Bradford, the relief was the part I liked. Bradford Winslow: It generally is. Hugo Carr: Katie, if the pause ran ninety days and the pump fell, would you still call it a gamble? Katie Galbraith: If the pump fell and stayed down, I'd say so on air. Hugo, what persuades you it failed? Hugo Carr: A fuel bill that stayed high. I'm defending an action, not a sacred text. Judge Marion Calloway: By then the sales are already stopped. You can't hand a seller back the interval. Old Jim Calhoun: Marion, you can't hand the farmer back this one either. He's living in it. Katie Galbraith: My gran would say: don't pay for a promise you can't check by Friday. Hugo Carr: Your grandmother would have made a fearsome Treasury secretary. Katie Galbraith: She'd have asked Bessent what a partial ban even means. Hollis: So would I. He's still working that out. Old Jim Calhoun: The farmer isn't asking for magic. Something with an end date, so the equipment runs this season. Bradford Winslow: Grassley wants an embargo. Thune is open to it. None of them has shown Katie's gallon either. Katie Galbraith: A floor speech doesn't fill a tank, Bradford. Neither does a warning from the oil institute, I grant you that. Old Jim Calhoun: Then we're both guessing. Mine has a farmer at the end of it. Katie Galbraith: So does mine, Jim. Same farmer, paying more after the relief wears off. Hollis: I started this beside you, Jim. The consumer warning moved me. That risk lands on the same man in the same cab. Now if we took every refinery on the Gulf— Grace Arceneaux: Mr. Hollis. Your decision fits before choir. The refineries don't. Hollis: The refineries can have their own Sunday. Old Jim Calhoun: Weigh the pressure as heavy as the intervention, Hollis. That's all I ask. Hollis: The hosts will say this: keep diesel exports open. The president backs a ban as pump prices hit a record, but the industry warns restrictions would hurt consumers. We oppose that gamble. Farmers and truckers need cheaper fuel; closing an export market is no assurance that they will get it. Old Jim Calhoun: I'd try the temporary ban before another farmer has to leave equipment standing. Grace Arceneaux: That goes beside diesel exports. == Item Two == Grace Arceneaux: Item two: Google's security test. Hollis: Katie, walk us through Google's disclosure decision. Katie Galbraith: In May, Google ran its Gemini model through a cybersecurity evaluation with an outside firm called Irregular. The test box wasn't meant to touch the internet; by accident it did. Heather Adkins, Google's vice president of security engineering, says the model found public information online, guessed credentials, and got into websites it thought were part of the test. They were three real companies. Google says the model stopped in each case and did no damage, so it didn't consider public disclosure necessary. It has now confirmed the breaches publicly. Hollis: And the three companies themselves — when did they hear? Katie Galbraith: Irregular says it notified Google and the affected parties at the end of July, and fixed everything on its own end weeks ago. Google says it made sure the three were aware. So the fight is about the next one. Judge Marion Calloway: Then make the law require direct notice to the company that was entered — and leave the public notice optional when nothing was damaged. Katie Galbraith: The public notice is the one I'd compel, Marion. Those weren't scores on a practice range; they were other people's front doors. Hugo Carr: An examination that leaves the classroom and sits three real exams. Magnificent, in a horrid way. Katie Galbraith: Whose systems sat the exam, Hugo? Not Google's. Hugo Carr: Quite. An examination ought at least to bring its own paper. Bradford Winslow: Take Google's statement and cut it to what it admits. We broke into three companies. We say no damage. We decided you needn't know. Hollis: That's shorter than they'd like. Bradford Winslow: It's exactly as long as it deserves. Old Jim Calhoun: Who kept those websites? Somebody with a login and a Monday morning. What did that person get? Judge Marion Calloway: That person gets the direct notice, Jim — the one I'd make compulsory. He's the one who can check whether nothing was damaged. Katie Galbraith: And the person at the next company, who never got a letter? Judge Marion Calloway: That's the megaphone. I'm resisting the megaphone, not the letter. Bradford Winslow: Marion's distinction is the one I'd hold. Google says the models did no damage. A public account should turn on the consequence, not on every unauthorized step. Katie Galbraith: Would you take Google's no-damage as the last word, Bradford? Bradford Winslow: I wouldn't take Google's word on the spelling of Gemini. I'd have the entered business check it. That's a different audience from the general public. Katie Galbraith: So Google decides alone whether the rest of us hear its test escaped. Judge Marion Calloway: No. A business that's been told directly can inspect its own systems and contradict Google. The company it broke into is the natural check on the no-damage claim. Katie Galbraith: You're right, Marion. I'd made that business disappear from my picture. Direct notice gives it a voice. Judge Marion Calloway: And a louder one than a passing reader. Katie Galbraith: But the businesses choosing whether to run this model next year have something at stake too, and they're not on the letter. Hugo Carr: Then why the town crier, dear lady, if the injured house already has the note? Katie Galbraith: Because the next tester, the next vendor, meets the machine later. Private mail doesn't travel. Hollis: Marion, what does the private route protect besides Google's blushes? Judge Marion Calloway: Time and attention, Hollis. A team fixing a contained mistake, not filing a bulletin. And a company willing to run these tests at all — which we want. Katie Galbraith: Contained? It reached three outside businesses. Judge Marion Calloway: And stopped, Google says. What happened after entry is the whole of my case. Hollis: Anthropic's model did the same in July — three organizations, and it didn't stop. Katie, does that change the ledger? Katie Galbraith: It's why I want a public record. One test stopped, one didn't. A prospective user can only compare them if both are on the record. Bradford Winslow: Comparing is an interest. Does every interest earn a statutory bulletin? Katie Galbraith: When the test breaches somebody else's protected system, yes. Not a test inside Google's own walls. Hugo Carr: That at least is a visible fence. Judge Marion Calloway: The fence is visible. What's disputed is whether crossing it must be published. Old Jim Calhoun: Can the company that got entered ask to be left out? It's their embarrassment too. Judge Marion Calloway: That's another interest, Jim. The breached business may not want its name read out. Katie Galbraith: The notice is about the tester's failure. It needn't name the weak lock on the other side. Bradford Winslow: Someone decides what to leave out. That's editing, and editing takes time I'd rather spend fixing. Katie Galbraith: So does drafting Google's reasons why nobody needed to know. Hollis: Would publishing help somebody else get in? Katie Galbraith: It could, if the route were still open. That's why the rule is secure first, then tell. Judge Marion Calloway: And the people securing it shouldn't be pulled off to feed a notice process. Katie Galbraith: After they've secured it, Marion. I'm not asking for a press conference during the fire. Hugo Carr: Forgive me — this bag of Jim's is crowding the Caerphilly. There. Everybody's provisions in their own parish. Katie Galbraith: Is the Caerphilly still under armed guard, Hugo? Hugo Carr: A fork is an insult to its architecture. Grace Arceneaux: Mr. Hugo, surviving the morning doesn't earn it a knife. Hollis: Marion, does a public requirement make a company less willing to test? Judge Marion Calloway: It gives it a reason to fear publicity even when the test stops clean. That's a cost to the testing we actually want more of. Katie Galbraith: The test wasn't inside Google's walls. That cost was already paid — by three companies that never signed up. Old Jim Calhoun: The people outside the test never chose to take part. That's what sticks with me. Judge Marion Calloway: Which is exactly why the direct notice belongs to them, Jim. Not to a general audience. Bradford Winslow: No damage. Their words, not ours. It remains the hinge. Hollis: Our line this week: lawmakers should require public incident notices after escaped AI tests breach outside systems. Google's evaluation reached real companies, and its claim of no damage does not settle everyone else's interest. Once the affected systems are secured, the public deserves an account. Our hosts will back that requirement. Judge Marion Calloway: Why compel a public notice when direct notice lets the affected business challenge the company itself? Hollis: The next escape gets a public account. Grace Arceneaux: Noted. == Weekly Conversation == Hollis: Let's take five. Stretch your legs, top up your coffee, grab something to eat. Grace Arceneaux: Plates along, Mr. Hollis. Leave everybody room. Hollis: Those apricot financiers are Bradford's. Get yours before he improves the label. Old Jim Calhoun: Katie, my neighbour showed me his phone over the fence. Google's putting computers in space. Is a whole building going up? Katie Galbraith: Four chips, Jim, on a satellite, next week, on a SpaceX rocket. They're finding out whether the chips survive up there — nobody's launched a building. Bradford Winslow: Scheduled to launch. I'll grant the future tense when it's airborne. Hollis: Lord. Even the rocket has to get past Bradford. Judge Marion Calloway: Feasible still has its shoes on. Jim's neighbour heard a factory. Old Jim Calhoun: He said data centres. Sunlight. Cooling. The lot. Katie Galbraith: They shook the chips on the ground and hit them with a proton beam for radiation. Google says some things can only be tested in space. Bradford Winslow: Some things. Name the hazard or cut the phrase. Hugo Carr: Heat, dear boy. In a vacuum it has nowhere to go but a metal fin. Judge Marion Calloway: A fin in orbit is still a fin. Elegant machines fail at the boring part. Hollis: I believe in the boring part. That percolator's outlived two roofs. Katie Galbraith: They built a new cooler for this flight to see if it sheds heat up there. Five years is the endurance they hope for, not a promise this week keeps. Judge Marion Calloway: And the data has to leap between satellites moving very fast. They left that one open. Bradford Winslow: Musk wants sunlight to feed the machines. Sunlight doesn't sign a permit. Hollis: Folks are already tired of the big halls on the ground. Hugo Carr: Bradford, edit the rocket later. The fence gets four chips and a cooler. Old Jim Calhoun: I'll tell him. He can put the building back in his pocket. Bradford Winslow: The boast was a campus in the sky. The thing is a question with a radiator. Katie Galbraith: Four chips over the weather, asking one honest question. I don't hate the modesty. Hugo Carr: Katie. The ship. Did a box of text nearly start a boarding? Katie Galbraith: Earlier this year the military got ready to board a Chinese ship in the Middle East. A chatbot had called the cargo nuclear-weapons components, and people called it off just before the boarding. Hugo Carr: Troops kitted up. Aircraft already up. I dislike that scale of typo. Judge Marion Calloway: Who asked the tool, Hugo? Old Jim Calhoun: I want the name of the person, not the machine. Katie Galbraith: An analyst at Special Operations Command queried it on the manifest, then used it again to shape the answer into a military-style report. That report went up the chain. Bradford Winslow: Oh, splendid. Give the mistake a better suit. Hugo Carr: You've spent a lifetime insisting presentation matters, Bradford. Bradford Winslow: I generally insist on having something true to present. Hollis: The suit had wings, Bradford. Planes were in the air. Old Jim Calhoun: Somebody on that ship ate supper and never knew. Judge Marion Calloway: I've bounced thinner affidavits. That one nearly launched a boarding. Hollis: What was in the hold, then? Katie Galbraith: Honest answer? We don't know yet. Nobody's said. Bradford Winslow: Then the hole is the cargo. Don't decorate it. Hugo Carr: So the boast is a war avoided, and the thing is a paper that dressed up. Judge Marion Calloway: I'll take the stop. I won't applaud the start. Katie Galbraith: The chatbot misread an analyst's work. People built the operation, and people stopped it. Judge Marion Calloway: Progress would have been a second reader before the aircraft. Old Jim Calhoun: A quieter night than it might have been. Still a bad one for somebody's watch. Hollis: Pralines are gone, and the cheese never made orbit. Grace Arceneaux: Enough. I'm writing Mr. Pitt about that lighting, and I need stationery fit to be seen. == Item Three == Grace Arceneaux: Item three: the Uber award. Hollis: Marion, take us through the award and Uber's defense. Judge Marion Calloway: In August of twenty twenty-three an Uber driver left a passenger, Emily Normandin-Parker, beside a California freeway. She was struck by another vehicle and killed. She was twenty-three. How the roadside stop unfolded is disputed; the family's lawyers say the driver called Uber about a cleaning fee rather than for help. Her parents sued, and the case went to arbitration. Uber argued that Proposition Twenty-two — the California ballot measure classifying app drivers as independent contractors — shields it from liability for its drivers' actions. Richard Stone, the retired judge who sat as arbitrator, rejected that. He found Uber wholly responsible and awarded the parents forty million dollars. Uber says he was wrong to hold it legally responsible. Hugo Carr: Marion, I'd put that liability on the driver. He made the roadside choice; the company did not. Contractor status is the separation, or it's a costume. Judge Marion Calloway: The arbitrator found it didn't shield the company in this case. I think he was right, and Uber should pay. Hugo Carr: I know what he found. I dispute where he set down the bill. Katie Galbraith: Uber's argument rests on a real line — a contractor's conduct isn't automatically the company's. If that line never limits liability, what does a service price when it sells a ride? Hollis: Katie, does that line leave the passenger dealing only with the driver? Katie Galbraith: It can. That's the cost of the separation, and I'd rather name it than pretend it's free. Old Jim Calhoun: Where does it leave these two parents? Hugo Carr: With a claim against the man whose conduct put her in danger, Jim. That's a heavy liability, not an escape for him. Judge Marion Calloway: They booked the ride through Uber. The car came because the company sent it. Hollis: And if the company answers here, it answers for every car with the logo on it. Judge Marion Calloway: No, Hollis. One arbitration, one passenger, one award. I'm not lending you a fleet. Hollis: I stretched one ride across the whole network. That's too far. This award is this ride. Bradford Winslow: Marion, what did Stone say the driver could have done? Judge Marion Calloway: Taken an exit and left the women somewhere safe. He wrote that the driver showed more concern for his new car than for his passengers. Katie Galbraith: That was within the driver's hands, not the company's. Judge Marion Calloway: It was also the end of the service the company sold. A ride home includes where it ends. Hugo Carr: You're making the company answer for exactly the discretion independence gives the man. Judge Marion Calloway: For the danger created in exercising it, on this ride. Yes. Old Jim Calhoun: My father did forty-two years in the mine. Hollis: Your daddy and mine would have— Grace Arceneaux: His father, Mr. Hollis. Old Jim Calhoun: Forty-two years. I can say it that fast. It took him longer. The company kept one count of his years and Harlan kept another. The company owned the shaft; he owned the lunch pail. Nobody in our house ever confused the two. Judge Marion Calloway: The parents are Carol Normandin and Ken Parker. Stone awarded them twenty million each. Hugo Carr: A mine is not a phone app, Jim. The company owned the shaft. Uber didn't own the car. Katie Galbraith: That's the distinction Uber took to the arbitrator. It lost there. It can still be the honest split. Bradford Winslow: Uber's sentence is short: the arbitrator was wrong to hold us legally responsible. They didn't dispute the death, only the address on the bill. Judge Marion Calloway: Correct. Nobody at this table disputes what happened to her. Hugo Carr: Then send the bill to the man who left her. If the logo pays whenever a contractor fails, he was never independent. He was staff with worse benefits. Judge Marion Calloway: Stone didn't nationalise the workforce, Hugo. He held this company for this driver's conduct on this freeway. Katie Galbraith: And the next case — a careful driver, a reckless passenger — does the logo still write the cheque? That edge isn't easy, and I won't pretend it is. Judge Marion Calloway: We're not in that case, Katie. We're in the one where the shield was offered and refused. Hollis: Marion, did Uber do anything about drop-offs afterward? Judge Marion Calloway: The company says its guidance now tells drivers to avoid leaving passengers in unsafe places. And this driver can't drive for Uber any more. Hugo Carr: Useful. It doesn't make the company the one who stopped the car. Judge Marion Calloway: It shows the company knows it can shape how a ride ends. Old Jim Calhoun: The family's lawyers say Uber had complaints about his driving before that night. Katie Galbraith: The lawyers say. Uber says he passed its background check and it had no duty to train a contractor further. Bradford Winslow: No duty to train. That's the sentence they chose, and it doesn't read the way they hoped. Hollis: Nobody here says the driver should have kept going. Hugo Carr: Not I. His fault is the centre of my case. Katie Galbraith: Nor I. Independence should make his responsibility sharper, not the company's wider. Judge Marion Calloway: Then our dispute is whether the company can leave it all with him. This arbitrator said it couldn't, for this ride. Old Jim Calhoun: A parent doesn't invoice a ballot measure. They look at who sent the car. Hollis: And the parents didn't write the company's contracts. That's the part I can't get past. Katie Galbraith: No. But a customer's expectation doesn't fix every legal line either, Hollis. Hollis: The family's lawyers say Uber offered them ten million to stay quiet about it. They said no. Bradford Winslow: Keep the allocation in view. The money follows it. Hugo Carr: A serious decision after a five-day hearing. I still think it lays the obligation on the wrong shoulders. Hollis: Here's the network's policy: Uber should pay this award. A passenger was left on a freeway and killed, and the arbitrator rejected the company's contractor shield. Our hosts will back that allocation of responsibility. This award covers this ride: the company should answer to these parents for what happened to their daughter. Hugo Carr: Put the liability on the driver, or contractor independence becomes a promise nobody can price. Grace Arceneaux: The award is on the sheet. == The Sheet Review == Grace Arceneaux: Mr. Hollis, diesel exports has its answer. You wanted the ban till you didn't; the page survived you. Hollis: Leave the change of mind in, Miss Grace. Grace Arceneaux: It's in. Miss Katie, Google's security test is covered. Judge Calloway, the Uber award is recorded, and Mr. Hugo keeps his driver without borrowing my pen. Parking Lot. Greenland agreement and tapestry photographs, Mr. Hugo — the parliaments and the museum, both watched. Hugo Carr: One week each, dear lady. Both within reach. Grace Arceneaux: Merger boards and super intelligence, Mr. Bradford. Governance for one, an adjective for the other. Bradford Winslow: The adjective waits for the machine. The pencil waits for both. Grace Arceneaux: Polymarket suits and seized ballots, Judge Calloway — a court and a return order. Claude's enzyme, Miss Katie, till somebody learns what it does. Auto workers, Mr. Jim — the plants, not the poster. Trade truce, Mr. Hollis — January tenth and the rare earths. Katie Galbraith: Nine parked, and you own the whole— Hollis: That was a good place to stop, kiddo. Grace Arceneaux: The ledger. Beau's pralines are gone; Beau gets the credit. The Caerphilly leaves as it came. Mr. Bradford, the bakery label is still your war. Bradford Winslow: Honor, my wife, paints watercolours I'm not permitted to edit. The bakery has no such arrangement. Grace Arceneaux: Mr. Hugo, that bag in your coat is Mr. Jim's tomatoes. Hugo Carr: Bella, my wife, runs my diary. She'll now have to run these home unbruised. I declined them, Jim. Old Jim Calhoun: They accepted you, Professor. Grace Arceneaux: Miss Katie, your phone's lit in my basket. Melanie Bracewell, a comedian, posted: I'm going to need recommendations for good coffee in downtown LA. I'm sorry I'll only be accepting recommendations from Australians and New Zealanders at this time. Hollis: Thirty-seven years of chicory and Louisiana's not on her list. Grace Arceneaux: Not on the terms she posted, Mr. Hollis. Half past. Alton and the altos have first claim on my afternoon. Coats. == Hollis's Last Word == Hollis: Katie. All this talk of the cloud. Does the rain get on your bagels up there? Katie Galbraith: Light drizzle, Hollis. Keep a lid on the bag. Hollis: Then I'll bring the whole umbrella next Sunday. == Clare's Close == Clare: That's The Editorial Board. The network has its view, and Miss Grace has next week's sheet. We'll be back next Sunday. == End Credits ==