Horizon: AI News & AI Regulation Tracker MCP Server
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Horizon: AI News & AI Regulation Tracker is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 11 tools. Last commit 5 Nov 2026.
Free, no-key AI news + AI regulation tracker MCP: EU AI Act, US federal & state, UK. Daily briefing.
Uptime history
91 days of history · worst day 99%
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
11
Tools
read from the server
448 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 5 Nov 2026
What changed 8
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 18 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
5 Nov
a tool description was rewritten
get_daily_briefing
22 Oct
3 tool descriptions were rewritten
get_daily_briefing, get_new_since, search_news
22 Oct
a tool changed the parameters it asks for
get_daily_briefing
14 Sep
a tool description was rewritten
get_regulation_updates
14 Sep
a tool changed the parameters it asks for
get_regulation_updates
18 Aug
a tool appeared
get_entity_provenance
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Horizon: AI News & AI Regulation Tracker every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add briefing --transport http https://horizon.alchemylab.sh/api/mcpSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://horizon.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.briefing]
url = "https://horizon.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"briefing": {
"url": "https://horizon.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"briefing": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://horizon.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 11
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
blind
get_blind_spots
Coverage blind spots: companies, models, and people that regional press (Chinese/East-Asian, European, Latin-American) is covering while Western/global feeds are not — ranked, with per-region item counts. Answers "what is Western tech media missing right now?". Measured within Horizon's corpus: "invisible" means zero pickup in the Western feeds Horizon tracks, not a claim about all media.
china
get_china_signal
Shortcut for get_region_signal with region "china": the current China & East-Asia AI signal (Qwen, DeepSeek, Zhipu, Moonshot, ModelScope, and more) that Western feeds often miss — ranked by momentum. Prefer get_region_signal if you may query more than one region.
daily
get_daily_briefing
Today's AI briefing, or any past day's: top stories with their sources and corroboration labels, emerging signals, new entrants, and regulation updates. Drawn from Hacker News, Bluesky, arXiv, Hugging Face, lab blogs, tech press in the US, Europe and East Asia, and legislative sources. A curated once-daily synthesis — for raw item-level updates since your last check, use get_new_since instead. Pass a date (YYYY-MM-DD) for a past day; set top_stories_only for a shorter result.
entity
get_entity_provenance
For one company, model, or person: how much of the claim activity Horizon holds provenance data for is self-reported by that entity versus independently evaluated by someone else. Descriptive counts over the last 30 days — not a score, and not a judgement about whether any claim is true. Answers "is the buzz around X coming from X?".
new
get_new_since
Incremental poll: raw item-level AI news added since a cursor, oldest→newest, with a nextCursor for your next call — use this for "what's new since I last checked"; for the curated once-daily synthesis use get_daily_briefing. Omit cursor for the latest items plus a cursor to start polling from. Returns titles, links and topics.
news
search_news
Quick title search over the last 14 days of AI news: returns the top 3 matches by momentum, with links and item ids (pass one to get_related).
region
get_region_signal
The current AI signal for a region (china, korea, japan, or eu) — recent, relevance-scored items on that region's models, labs, and analysis, ranked by momentum. Includes local-language press translated into English. The canonical regional tool; get_china_signal is a preset of this with region "china". Returns titles, sources, and links.
regulation
get_regulation_updates
Current AI legislation headlines across the US Congress and federal agencies, US state legislatures, the UK Parliament, and the EU, with each item's legislative stage (proposed / committee / floor action / passed / implementation). State bills are the largest share by far; filter with jurisdiction to narrow.
related
get_related
Semantic 'more like this': given an item id (from get_new_since, search_news, or the feed), returns the most similar recent items by embedding similarity. Titles, sources, similarity scores, links.
sources
list_sources
Describe what Horizon covers: ingestion sources with their source= filter values, the regional lenses (region= / dedicated tools), and how to filter. Call this to understand the corpus before querying.
topic
get_topic_signal
The current AI signal for a topic — recent, relevance-scored items tagged with that topic, ranked by momentum. Like get_region_signal but sliced by subject instead of geography.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://horizon.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 421 ms | 8 min ago |
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Horizon: AI News & AI Regulation Tracker — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Horizon: AI News & AI Regulation Tracker do?
It exposes 11 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_blind_spots, get_china_signal, get_daily_briefing, get_entity_provenance, get_new_since, get_region_signal and 5 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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Is Horizon: AI News & AI Regulation Tracker working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 448 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Horizon: AI News & AI Regulation Tracker?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Horizon: AI News & AI Regulation Tracker need an API key?
No. Horizon: AI News & AI Regulation Tracker completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 11 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Horizon: AI News & AI Regulation Tracker?
It answers our handshake in 448 ms on average, which is faster than 27% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Horizon: AI News & AI Regulation Tracker open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at horizon.alchemylab.sh, which runs on its operator's own terms.