Nutanix has acquired some of the assets of D2iQ, an enterprise cloud software company formerly known as Mesosphere, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Despite once garnering a lot of buzz for helping popularize Kubernetes — the open source server-management technology developed by Google — the company's struggles in recent years have included layoffs and failed acquisition talks.
Now coming to a mall, gym or office building near you: A self-contained doctor's office, powered by artificial intelligence, where you — the patient — draw your own blood and take your own vitals.
Why it matters: The traditional annual checkup is being disrupted in various tech-heavy ways, from telehealth to concierge medicine to the CarePod, above, a DIY health clinic-in-a-box.
An effort to develop smaller, cheaper AI models could help put the power of machine learning in the hands of more people, products and companies.
Why it matters: Large language models get most of the AI attention, but even those that are open source aren't practicalfor many AI researchers who want to iterate on them to create their own models for new tools and products.
Fortnite is back. And so is that word "metaverse," now that Epic Games can show it's actually building a virtual world by expanding Fortnite this week into a platform containing three major new internally developed games.
Why it matters: "Metaverse" isn't the buzzword it used to be, but if a metaverse is indeed an interconnected virtual space where people's avatars can do a wide variety of things, Epic's version is now here.
