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NEAR AI Suspends Cloud Inference Service After Unauthorized Access
Confidential AI provider NEAR AI has suspended its cloud inference service after detecting unauthorized access to its internal systems on November 9, 2026. The company reported that customer workloads and inference workloads were kept inside hardware-isolated Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), specifically Intel TDX and NVIDIA confidential computing. NEAR AI confirmed that the unauthorized access had been addressed and closed by November 10, 2026, and the cloud service remained offline until it could be safely brought back. The company stated that NEAR Protocol and other NEAR services were unaffected by the breach.