MINI TECH SCROLL: OpenAI x Pinterest speculation, Grok's inappropriate content (again), Anna’s Archive offline & more

The biggest tech news & social media trends on the internet from January 7th, 2026.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro 

1:06 Is OpenAI buying Pinterest?

4:51 Anna’s Archive domain name suspended 

8:36 Reddit overtakes TikTok in site visits in the UK 

12:45 Grok generating images undressing women 

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Sources:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/tiktok-prepares-us-app-with-its-own-algorithm-user-data-2025-07-09/ 

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sutskevers-fate-openais-next-deal-hit-robot-13-predictions-2026 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/pinterest-adds-controls-to-let-you-limit-the-amount-of-ai-slop-in-your-feed/ 

https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/25023_52957d6c-0378-4796-99fa-aab684b3b2f8.pdf 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/22/activist-group-says-it-has-scraped-86m-music-files-from-spotify 

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html 

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/online-research/online-nation/2025/online-nations-report-2025.pdf?v=409837 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/reddit-overtakes-tiktok-uk-search-algorithms-gen-z 

https://www.theverge.com/news/853191/grok-explicit-bikini-pictures-minors 

https://copyleaks.com/blog/grok-and-nonconsensual-image-manipulation 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-03/reports-xai-grok-undressed-minors-in-photos-on-x/106196308

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/06/elon-musk-xai-investment-grok-backlash 

https://www.usermag.co/p/is-anyone-going-to-take-accountability