I will be honest — this is something we have been wanting to build for a while at ICT Innovations. Every day, our team uses AI assistants for research, drafting, and analysis. And almost every day, someone hits the same wall: the AI does not know what happened last week. The training data is stale. The model is brilliant but stuck in the past.
So we fixed it. Today, we are launching a free public news server at news.ictinnovations.com that gives any compatible AI assistant access to live, continuously updated news headlines — right now, at this moment, for free.
The way it works is through a protocol called MCP (Model Context Protocol) — a standard that lets AI tools plug into external data sources. If your AI assistant supports MCP, you can give it live news access in about two minutes. No sign-up. No API key. Just one URL: https://news.ictinnovations.com/mcp
What Can Your AI Now Do?
Once connected, your AI can answer questions it could never answer before. Things like: What is the top story from Pakistan right now? What happened in tech news today? Search for articles about the latest trade talks. It pulls from real sources — BBC, Reuters, AP News, Al Jazeera, TechCrunch, Dawn, Geo News — refreshed throughout the day.
There are six tools built into the server. You do not need to configure them — your AI discovers them automatically when you add the URL:
- get_latest_news — Current headlines, filterable by topic, source, or time. The tool you will ask your AI to use most.
- get_breaking_news — Only articles from the past two hours, for fast-moving situations.
- get_pakistan_news — Dawn and Geo feeds, because keeping up with home matters.
- search_news — Ask about any topic and get matching articles from the database.
- refresh_news — Force an immediate update from all sources.
- news_stats — A quick status check: how many articles, which sources, when last updated.
How to Connect Your AI Tool
The server URL you need is: https://news.ictinnovations.com/mcp
Claude Desktop
Open or create ~/.claude/claude_desktop_config.json on your computer:
{
"mcpServers": {
"news": {
"command": "python3",
"args": ["-m", "mcp_proxy", "https://news.ictinnovations.com/mcp"]
}
}
}Save and restart Claude Desktop. The news tools will appear automatically.
Claude.ai (Browser)
Go to Settings → Integrations and add a new MCP server. Paste https://news.ictinnovations.com/mcp and save. Claude will detect the tools on its own.
Cursor
Open Settings → MCP → Add MCP Server. Choose HTTP type and paste the URL. Restart Cursor.
Windsurf
Go to Settings → MCP Servers → Add Server. Set type to HTTP/SSE, paste the URL, save.
Zed Editor
Add to ~/.config/zed/settings.json:
{
"context_servers": {
"news-mcp": {
"url": "https://news.ictinnovations.com/mcp",
"settings": {}
}
}
}Continue.dev
Add to ~/.continue/config.json:
{
"mcpServers": [
{
"name": "ICT News",
"transport": {
"type": "streamable-http",
"url": "https://news.ictinnovations.com/mcp"
}
}
]
}Cline (VS Code)
Open the Cline sidebar → MCP Servers tab → Add Server. Paste https://news.ictinnovations.com/mcp and you are done.
LibreChat
In admin panel: Admin → MCP Servers → Add:
Name: ICT News
URL: https://news.ictinnovations.com/mcp
Type: Streamable HTTPOpenWebUI
Settings → Tools → Add Tool Server → MCP type → paste URL.
A Note From Our Team
We built this because we needed it ourselves. ICT Innovations has been building communication technology for over a decade — auto-dialers, cloud fax, VoIP platforms, AI live chat. We use AI tools constantly. The knowledge cutoff kept frustrating us, so we built a fix and decided to share it publicly.
The server is free, no login required, and we plan to keep adding sources. If you want to suggest a news source, or if something is not working, write to us at support@ictinnovations.com.
Visit news.ictinnovations.com — and then go add it to your AI tool of choice. I think you will find it genuinely useful.
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