<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 10:29 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"><br></span><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8462985276925624786"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8462985276925624786WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b style="background-color:transparent"><u><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Plan<span class="m_-8462985276925624786gmaildefault"> A</span></span></u></b></blockquote></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8462985276925624786"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8462985276925624786WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">>…This Plan, the one they like the best and the one I hate the most, is to coordinate between the US and China to slow the development of AI…</span></b></blockquote><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif">The notion that the US and China are the AI players that matter understates Israel. </font></i></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Good point.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> 14 Israelis have won Nobel prizes and that is a huge number for such a tiny country. </span> </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><br></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8462985276925624786"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8462985276925624786WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></b></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>