NEAR AI Suspends Cloud Inference Service After Unauthorized Access

NEAR AI said it found unauthorized access to its internal systems and suspended its cloud inference service while investigating. According to Foresight News, the company has shut down the unauthorized access and will keep NEAR AI Cloud suspended until it is safe to resume service. NEAR Protocol and other services were not affected, and the team said it would provide another update within two hours. NEAR AI previously said it had paused cloud inference as a precaution while it investigated the incident. The service runs in hardware-isolated trusted execution environments (TEEs) to protect the privacy of user prompts.