diff --git a/requirements/core.txt b/requirements/core.txt
index e96d5ec..e6fcf9f 100644
--- a/requirements/core.txt
+++ b/requirements/core.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 fastapi>=0.110
 uvicorn[standard]>=0.29
 pydantic>=2.6
-numpy>=1.26
+numpy>=2.5.2
 scikit-learn>=1.4
 rank-bm25>=0.2.2
 httpx>=0.27