IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi testifies before Joint Economic Committee
IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR IONQ - IonQ Chairman and CEO, Niccolo de Masi, second from left, testifies during a Joint Economic Committee informational hearing on frontier technologies at the Hart Senate Office Building with fellow panelist, Senior Fellow American Enterprise Institue Will Rinehart, left; Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Engineer Standard Bots Evan Beard, second from right; and the Director of Technology Policy for Third Way Ruth Whittaker; Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025 in Washington. IonQ is the world's leading quantum company. (Kevin Wolf/AP Content Services for IonQ) THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN BY AP CONTENT SERVICES FOR IONQ