diff --git a/ai-service/requirements.txt b/ai-service/requirements.txt
index 1aae05db..e49f1e92 100644
--- a/ai-service/requirements.txt
+++ b/ai-service/requirements.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ kuzu>=0.11.3
 # NOTE: sentence-transformers>=4.0.0 has LRScheduler compatibility issues with torch 2.2.x.
 # Pin to <4.0.0 for Intel Mac compatibility.
 sentence-transformers>=5.4.1,<6.0.0
-numpy>=1.23.0,<3.0.0
+numpy>=2.4.6,<3.0.0
 
 # STT / TTS
 faster-whisper>=1.2.1