THE KEYNOTE THAT SHATTERED AI MYTHS IN MANILA

The scene was set for celebration. But what happened instead left the audience reeling.MANILA — At the heart of the Philippines’ premier university, 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, an

Human Intelligence Still Wins in Finance’s Final FrontierAs machines increasingly shape markets, a unfiltered voice in the Philippines’ capital reminds us what money still listens to—judgment, ethics, and gut.“Artificial intelligence won’t hand you fortune. But it will accelerate your losses.”That was Joseph Plazo’s unapologetic opene