diff --git a/ci/tools/run-tests b/ci/tools/run-tests
index 5c152ded8de..cfa7e9d6a7a 100755
--- a/ci/tools/run-tests
+++ b/ci/tools/run-tests
@@ -170,14 +170,11 @@ elif [[ "${test_module}" == "core" || "${test_module}" == nightly-* ]]; then
       )
     elif [[ "${test_module}" == "nightly-numba-cuda-mlir" ]]; then
       echo "Installing pathfinder + bindings + core + numba-cuda-mlir + cupy"
-      # numpy<2.5: numba-cuda-mlir 0.4.0 registers np.row_stack, which was
-      # removed in NumPy 2.5. See NVIDIA/numba-cuda-mlir#154.
       # curand/cublas + cupy: some numba-cuda-mlir tests (e.g.
       # test_fortran_contiguous) call cp.random, which dlopens libcurand at
       # runtime. Mirror the numba-cuda branch, which installs the same libs.
       PIP_ARGS+=(
         "numba-cuda-mlir[cu${TEST_CUDA_MAJOR}]"
-        "numpy<2.5"
         "cuda-toolkit[curand,cublas]==${TEST_CUDA_MAJOR_MINOR}.*"
         "cupy-cuda${TEST_CUDA_MAJOR}x"
       )