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This infobox entry is premature. Getty's own October 12, 2026 restructuring announcement identifies the company as "OTCPK: GETY" and says that "Upon completion of the restructuring, Getty Images will become a privately held company". In other words, the company was not yet private when that announcement was made; becoming private was a future result of the restructuring. Getty's October 1, 2026 SEC filing likewise says its common stock began trading on the OTC Pink Limited Market on September 30, 2026, which means it was still a publicly traded company at that time.

This ticker/exchange line is out of date. Getty disclosed in an SEC filing that on September 29, 2026 the NYSE immediately suspended trading in Getty's Class A common stock and that the stock began trading on the OTC Pink Limited Market on September 30, 2026 under the same symbol, GETY. The NYSE then filed notice that it intended to remove Getty's common stock from listing and registration on October 13, 2026. So by the time of this article revision, Getty was not accurately described as trading on the NYSE.

This sentence misstates both when Getty made the going-concern disclosure and why.

Getty's official going-concern language appears in its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, filed in August 2026—not in March 2026. The filing says management concluded there was substantial doubt about Getty's ability to continue as a going concern because of the magnitude and timing of current and future obligations and limited available liquidity.

It then specifies the main drivers:

1. Warrant litigation costs, including a $110.9 million payment in Q2 2026 and a remaining litigation reserve;
2. Significant merger-related costs tied to the Shutterstock deal;
3. High interest expense and financing fees associated with financing obtained for that merger.

The same disclosure also references July 2026 events, including that the merger was terminated on July 7, 2026 and July court decisions in New York state cases. Those July events make it impossible for this exact warning to have been issued in March 2026.

Getty's filing does mention AI elsewhere as a general business risk, but the going-concern explanation does not say the warning was due to "company irrelevance driven by the steep rise of artificial intelligence."

This clause attributes the entire $533 million investment to Koch, but Getty's own announcement says the commitment is joint. The October 12, 2026 release states that members of the Getty Family and affiliates of Koch Equity Development together (as the "Equity Investors") committed to invest up to $533 million of new equity. The same release separately says financing from KED to fund the restructuring would be up to $143 million. So the source does not support the claim that Koch alone would invest $533 million.