Getty Images has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a move that will take the longtime visual-content giant private and wipe out its public shareholders as it grapples with heavy debt, a collapsed merger, and the steady erosion of its stock-photo business by generative AI. https://twitter.com/mymixtapez/status/2113366127401148520?s=20 The company submitted its voluntary petitions on Oct. 21 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, formalizing a prepackaged restructuring it first outlined nine days earlier. Only...

Moneybagg Yo and Ari Fletcher confronted Kick streamer Cuffem during the Weedmaps Halloween Party on the night of Oct. 21, resulting in Cuffem and members of his group being removed from the event. A roughly 90-second video of the exchange, which circulated widely the following day, has drawn more than two million views on X. The footage shows the group in an outdoor area near metal roll-up doors, illuminated by purple and green lighting. Cuffem,...