Horizon: AI News & AI Regulation Tracker

sh.alchemylab.horizonPublished by horizon.alchemylab.shOfficial publisherv1.2.1Updated Nov 5, 2026

Free, no-key AI news + AI regulation tracker MCP: EU AI Act, US federal & state, UK. Daily briefing.

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Overview

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Free, no-key remote MCP server that gives an assistant daily AI news briefings, AI regulation tracking, and regional or topic signal feeds with evidence labels.

What you can do
  • Get a daily AI briefing for today or any past date, with sources and corroboration labels
  • Track AI legislation across the EU, US federal and state, and UK, with each item's legislative stage
  • Pull momentum-ranked signal by region (China, Korea, Japan, EU) or by topic, and see coverage blind spots
  • Check how much of the activity around a company or model is self-reported versus independently evaluated
  • Search recent news titles, poll new items since a cursor, and find semantically similar items
  • List the corpus sources and filters
When to use it
Useful when you want an assistant to answer questions about current AI industry news, the state of AI regulation in the US, UK or EU, or what regional press is covering that Western feeds miss, without setting up API keys.
Requirements
A remote streamable HTTP endpoint; no authentication, key or OAuth is required. Hosts that only support stdio can bridge it with the mcp-remote package via npx. Network access to the hosted service is needed.
Before you install
The hosted server is closed source and all queries go to a third party. Some tools (cited answers and trends) are key-gated and not part of the free tool set. Results are aggregated, momentum-ranked intelligence, not verified fact; the server states nothing is marked true or false.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Horizon: AI News & AI Regulation Tracker in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/sh.alchemylab.horizon%2Fbriefing/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "horizon-ai-news-ai-regulation-tracker": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://horizon.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

Horizon — AI news & AI regulation tracker for agents (MCP)

A free, no-key MCP server for AI news and AI regulation tracking — the EU AI Act, US federal and state bills, UK policy — plus a daily AI briefing, all with the evidence behind each claim labelled: self-reported by the company, or independently reported and evaluated.

This repository holds the docs, the plugin and the listing files. The hosted server itself is closed source.

Claude Code plugin

Adds the MCP server and three skills — /ai-news, /ai-regulation, /ai-receipts — that teach Claude which tool answers which question and how to relay the evidence labels instead of flattening them into headlines.

/plugin marketplace add Alchemy-Lab-Infra/horizon-mcp/plugin install horizon@alchemylab

Then ask: "What's the state of the EU AI Act?" — or /ai-regulation, /ai-news, /ai-receipts directly.

Any other MCP host

Point it at the endpoint. No key, no OAuth:

json
{ "mcpServers": { "horizon": { "url": "https://horizon.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp" } } }

For hosts that only speak stdio, npx mcp-remote https://horizon.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp bridges it.

Gemini CLI: gemini extensions install https://github.com/Alchemy-Lab-Infra/horizon-mcp

VS Code and Copilot: add it to .vscode/mcp.json:

json
{ "servers": { "horizon": { "type": "http", "url": "https://horizon.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp" } } }

plugins/horizon is also a portable Agent Plugin (plugin.json, mcp.json, skills/), for hosts that read that format.

Tools

ToolWhat it answers
get_daily_briefingWhat happened in AI today, or on any past date (public archive)
get_regulation_updatesCurrent AI legislation with its stage — eu, us_federal, us_state, uk
get_entity_provenanceHow much of the talk about a company or model is self-reported vs independently evaluated
get_topic_signalRecent signal on models, regulation, research, funding, tools…
get_region_signal / get_china_signalWhat Chinese, Korean, Japanese or EU press is covering
get_blind_spotsWhat regional press covers that Western feeds miss
search_newsQuick relevance check, top 3
get_new_since / get_relatedIncremental polling and "more like this"
list_sourcesWhat the corpus covers

Key-gated: ask_horizon (cited answers) and get_trends — see /developers.

What makes it different

Most AI-news tools give you headlines. Horizon labels who is saying it: a lab's own benchmark number carries "self-reported, no independent confirmation"; a number measured by LMArena, Epoch, Artificial Analysis or METR carries "independently evaluated". Regulation items carry their legislative stage from the source, not from coverage. Nothing is ever marked true or false — the shape of the evidence is the product.

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters, Bluesky, curated lab and media RSS, arXiv, Hugging Face, ModelScope, US Congress and federal agencies, US state legislatures, UK Parliament, EU bodies. Regional lenses for China, Korea, Japan and the EU.

License

MIT for this repository. Attribution requested: name "Horizon" and link https://horizon.alchemylab.sh when you use results; every result carries a ready-to-paste provider.citation.

Source: README.md at commit a215919

Tools

11

get_daily_briefing

Daily AI 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.

Parametersdatetop_stories_only

get_regulation_updates

AI regulation updates (US/UK/EU)

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.

Parameterslimitjurisdiction

get_china_signal

China & East-Asia AI 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.

Parameterslimit

get_region_signal

Regional AI 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.

Parameterslimitregionrequired

get_entity_provenance

Claim provenance for an entity

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?".

Parametersentityrequired

get_blind_spots

Coverage 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.

Parametersdayslimit

get_topic_signal

Topic AI 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.

Parameterslimittopicrequired

search_news

Search AI 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).

Parametersqueryrequired

get_new_since

New AI items since cursor

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.

Parameterslimitcursor

list_sources

Coverage & 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.

Takes no parameters.

Version history

3
  1. v1.2.1LatestNov 5, 2026
  2. v1.2.0Oct 24, 2026
  3. v1.1.0Sep 16, 2026

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