The scene was set for celebration. What unfolded was a reckoning. At the University of the Philippines' famed lecture theater, students from across Asia’s elite universities gathered to see the future of trading laid bare by machines.They expected Plazo to hand them a blueprint to machine-driven wealth. They were wrong.---### When a Maverick St

It was supposed to be a coronation of machine supremacy. Instead, it became a confrontation. In the sunlit academic halls of UP Diliman, 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 fan their e