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Jeff Brown picked Nvidia in 2016, before shares surged 37,800 percent. Now he's identified another AI company the same size Nvidia was a decade ago. Brown says this firm's patented technology can produce intelligence up to 1,000 times faster than standard AI, and he expects Elon Musk to fuel demand starting November 11. The technology is protected by 150 patents.

Porter Stansberry flew the Porter and Co. team 3,300 miles to Dublin to investigate a 17-year investing experiment called Project Prophet - and documented everything on film. Rooted in the laws of physics, this quantitative approach challenges conventional wealth-building wisdom. With 17 years of verified data behind it, Porter calls it unlike anything he has seen in nearly 30 years in the business.