CEO of Quandela Niccolo Somaschi poses during a photo session next to a Quandela photonic quantum computer as part of a visit of France's President to the European Forum on Computing Power, Quantum Sciences and Technologies, and Semiconductors at the Very Large Computing Centre of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Bruyeres-le-Chatel, south of Paris on May 22, 2026. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)