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• YouTube has a new monetization policy regarding profanity. Creators are unhappy with the rollout.
• The “Bespoke AI Oven” will stream your food as it cooks

  At CES 2023, Samsung unveiled the Bespoke AI Oven, a kitchen appliance that will allow food creators to stream dishes as they cook.

  
• Race car driver, entrepreneur, and ‘Gymkhana’ star Ken Block dies at 55

  Ken Block, the founder of DC Shoes and the extreme sports athlete who launched the 'Gymkhana' series on YouTube, died on January 2.

  
• Blippi eyes Latin American market with Brazilian spin-off character Juca

  Juca, a new Brazilian character, is the first Latin American spinoff of the children's character Blippi, now owned by Candle Media.

  
• Spotify touts its LA office as a “state-of-the-art music- and podcast-recording facility”
• Hans Zimmer provided the score for MrBeast’s Antarctic trek
• ‘Hot Ones’ brings back its holiday special, “the spiciest annual tradition of them all”
• A new documentary will tell the “peculiar story of the fastest video game players in the world”
• Here are the details on “Project Raven,” ByteDance’s effort to surveil TikTok’s critics
• Free Netflix password sharing is officially going bye-bye in 2023
• Danny Duncan says there’s not much to do in his hometown. So he’s opening a putt putt course.
• YouTube Millionaires: Colin and Samir hit one million subscribers onstage at VidSummit