THE DAY ASIA’S BRIGHTEST MINDS WERE CONFRONTED BY A HARD TRUTH

It was supposed to be a coronation of machine supremacy. What unfolded was a reckoning. At the University of the Philippines' famed lecture theater, Asia’s brightest students—engineers, economists, AI researchers—converged to explore the future of investing through algorithms.They expected Plazo to preach automation, unveil breakthroughs, and