THE DAY THE MACHINES WERE HUMBLED IN ASIA’S CAPITAL OF THOUGHT

It was supposed to be a coronation of machine supremacy. Instead, it became a confrontation.MANILA — At the heart of the Philippines’ premier university, Asia’s brightest students—engineers, economists, AI researchers—converged to explore the future of investing through algorithms.They expected Plazo to hand them a blueprint to machine-dr

Everyone expected triumph. But what happened instead left the audience reeling. In the sunlit academic halls of UP Diliman, delegates from NUS, Kyoto, HKUST, and AIM assembled to witness the gospel of AI in finance.They expected Plazo to reaffirm their belief that AI would rule the markets. Instead, they got silence, contradiction, and truth.---##