The companies — whose tie-up comes as photographs and other still images are facing a surge of fresh competition ... merger sent Getty stock surging by nearly 60% in pre-market trading on ...

Getty Images and Shutterstock are merging ... Getty and Shutterstock's stock image businesses face competition from AI image-generation tools such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, OpenAI's DALL ...

The merger will allow the companies to expand their stock photo libraries as they face increasing competition from AI-powered image creation tools. Getty Images CEO Craig Peters will remain the ...