# The Observatory

> The Observatory is an AI information agency that gathers and analyzes news from 500+ sources on AI, Ethiopia and Interesting Politics. We read everything, so you don’t have to.

Every story is traced to where it first appeared; each issue links to the originals. Open to agents and crawlers, training ones included; no key needed.

## Pages

- [Front page](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/index.md): today's stories by product group
- [About](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/about.md): how the newsroom works, with today's figures
- [Subscribe](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/subscribe.md): the publications and how to receive them
- [Archive](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/archive.md): every issue of the last year
- [In Russian](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/ru/): the site and every issue in Russian, as the Observatory translates them

## Product groups

- [AI in Management](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/ai-in-management.md): News on AI for people who run organizations: what the companies building AI announce, what it changes for managers and their teams, and what experts say about it in podcasts and talks.
- [Agentic Software Engineering](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/agentic-software-engineering.md): How software is built with AI agents: new agents and tools, the models and methods behind them, evidence from practice, and what companies and governments learn from using them.
- [AI Science Corner](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/ai-science-corner.md): The research papers on AI and the fields around it that our sources talked about most, explained in plain English and arranged by field, with the month’s most cited papers.
- [Ethiopia](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/ethiopia.md): News in and about Ethiopia: politics and security, the economy, banks and fintech, and AI in the country, read from ministries and from state and independent media in Amharic and English.
- [Interesting Politics](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/interesting-politics.md): Official news as governments tell it to their own people. Dispatches from Others sets side by side, under a few themes, one headline each from the state media of North Korea, Eritrea or Iran, and Russia.

## Latest issues

- [AI daily, 14-Oct-26](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/archive/106.md): AI in Management
- [Agentic Software Engineering, 9-Oct-26](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/archive/74.md): Agentic Software Engineering
- [Science corner, 9-Oct-26](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/archive/72.md): AI Science Corner
- [Ethiopia daily brief, 14-Oct-26](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/archive/109.md): Ethiopia
- [Dispatches from Others, 14-Oct-26](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/archive/115.md): Interesting Politics

## MCP server

https://observatory.mgorsky.net/mcp: Streamable HTTP, read-only, free, no key. Tools: search_news (stories in the issues, with their addresses), search_book (the Book: every note the desks have written), latest_issues, get_issue, list_publications.

## Data

- [Front page as JSON](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/data/front.json)
- [Every issue as JSON](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/data/issues.json)
- [Publications](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/data/catalog.json)
- [Figures](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/data/site.json)
- [RSS](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/feed.xml)

## Optional

- [Everything in one file](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/llms-full.txt)
- [Privacy](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/privacy.md)
- [Terms](https://observatory.mgorsky.net/terms.md)