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 see the future of trading laid bare by machines.They expected Plazo to preach automation, unveil breakthroughs, and fa