Google was already using machine learning to power its spam detection capabilities. And the tech company says the existing models, in conjunction with other protections, helped block more than 99. ...

It’s not that Gmail engineers haven’t been leveraging TensorFlow to improve spam detection — far from it. Google noted the team’s migration to the framework in a blog post dated May 2017.

TensorFlow, which Google made open source back in 2015, has been used to improve spam detection for a while, but it's now received broader adoption and a larger set of spam classifications "at ...