NEAR AI's internal systems were breached, and the AI Cloud inference service has been suspended.

NEAR AI suspended its NEAR AI Cloud inference service on November 10 after detecting unauthorized access to its internal systems, and said the service will stay offline until it is safe to restore. The team said it has since closed the unauthorized access and is finishing its investigation, with the next update promised within two hours. NEAR AI Cloud inference runs inside hardware-isolated trusted execution environments (TEEs) to protect user prompt privacy. NEAR AI stressed that NEAR Protocol and other NEAR services were unaffected. The suspension matters because it temporarily removes a privacy-focused AI inference offering from the NEAR ecosystem; what to watch next is the investigation's findings and confirmation that inference has safely resumed.