Here is your low down on TensorFlow updates, France's AI strategy, and a new DeepMind lab

There were new announcements from Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference and Google's TensorFlow Dev Summit while France announced its own national AI strategy in a report and vowed €1.5bn in public funding. TensorFlow conference - Google hosted the TensorFlow Dev Summit on Friday in Mountain View, California, and announced a range of updates for its code, which remains the most popular software framework for AI and machine learning. Here's a list of the main highlights; all these tools are now going to be rolled out to researchers: If you're a TF nerd, there are more details on the blog and the Youtube channel. Also, here is the download link to TensorFlow 1.7.0 for you to play around with over the Easter weekend. La AI stratégie de France - France's President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged the importance of AI and the need to catch up to the the United States and China.