Recording available · 30 minutes · Free
AI Reality Check:
April 2026
Recently, an AI company gave governments, banks and even its competitors early access to its latest model – because it's powerful enough to break their systems. The implications go far beyond security. It's an advance warning that AI is about to cross a threshold in doing complex work and reshaping whole organisations.
In this 30-minute session, Antony Mayfield explains what's changed, what's coming next, and where to focus your energy over the next 18 months.
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What the video covers
A dozen trillion-dollar companies just formed an alliance
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA and JPMorgan are among those behind Project Glasswing – a defensive response to a single AI model. You don't form a cross-industry consortium because something is incrementally better.
Central banks held emergency meetings
The Bank of England, the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Canada scheduled urgent discussions with major banks last week. The reason: Claude Mythos Preview – an AI model Anthropic has held back while institutions patch the holes it can find.
Six to eighteen months
That's how long before freely available AI reaches similar capability. The capabilities that prompted this response don't stay behind closed doors. Most organisations haven't started preparing.
What you'll take away
- → Read the signal – why a trillion-dollar consortium just formed, and what it tells you about where AI capability is actually heading
- → Understand the shift – the difference between AI-as-assistant and AI-that-works, and why most organisations have only prepared for the first
- → Act now – three concrete steps at personal, team and organisation level, while the window is still open
20 minutes of briefing · 10 minutes of Q&A
Presented by Antony Mayfield
Antony is the founder of Brilliant Noise. He works with leadership teams at global organisations on AI strategy and capability – and has been building with AI agents daily since their emergence.
Brilliant Noise partners with organisations to turn scattered AI activity into lasting capability. No hype. Real problems. Real outcomes.
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