Welcome to Zero Day Nation, an advanced computing podcast brought to you by Building Our Future.
In this episode, host Brooke Fallon unpacks the stealth surge in next-gen AI, fresh moves in quantum research, and what a $2B “seed” round tells us about the state of the tech race. From legislative pushes on quantum manufacturing to the rise of anonymous supermodels like Night Whisper and Quasar Alpha, we explore how frontier technologies are shaping geopolitical competition.
This week’s highlights include:
Senator Marsha Blackburn introduces three bipartisan bills to boost America’s quantum edge
Night Whisper and Quasar Alpha outperform GPT-4.5, Claude, and Gemini—without a known creator
ByteDance debuts Seed-Thinking v1.5, a reasoning model with strategic implications
U.S. military launches a challenge to find the world’s best quantum computer
President Trump temporarily exempts chips and phones from tariffs—raising supply chain questions
Safe Superintelligence Inc and Thinking Machines Lab each raise $2B with no product released
Photonic chips, AR headsets, and satellite-grade semiconductors hit the defense-tech spotlight
Whether you're building AI for national missions, investing in dual-use quantum, or tracking the geopolitics of compute, Zero Day Nation is your classified brief for the code war ahead.
Subscribe, share, and join us as we decode the technologies defining power in the 21st century.
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Intro / outro music: Dark Ambiental Experiments by Natarajanconnection.
Cover art created with OpenAI's Dall-E 3 model.
Brooke Fallon is a fictional host created using OpenAI's GPT-4o and ElevenLabs' Eleven Turbo v2.
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