AI Astronomy Breakthrough. Wikipedia AI Data. OpenAI Flex Processing. AI Safety Fund.

The AI news for April 18th, 2025 Here are the details of the day's selected top stories: Student discovers 1.5 million new celestial objects with AI! Source: https://www.all-ai.de/news/topbeitraege/sch%C3%BCler-entdeckt-1%2C5-millionen-neue-himmelsobjekte-mit-ki Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/650467/wikipedia-kaggle-partnership-ai-dataset-machine-learning OpenAI launches Flex processing for cheaper, slower AI tasks Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/17/openai-launches-flex-processing-for-cheaper-slower-ai-tasks/ Former Y Combinator president Geoff Ralston launches new AI ‘safety’ fund Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/17/former-y-combinator-president-geoff-ralston-launches-new-ai-safety-fund/