AssemblyAI change history: Negative Balance Error

AssemblyAI reported a major billing incident: a small number of accounts received negative balances via the API, preventing transcription requests from completing. It ran from 2026-02-25 19:39 UTC to 2026-02-25 21:34 UTC (1 h 55 min). AssemblyAI attributed it to an unintentional error during its ongoing billing system migration, rolled out a fix, and confirmed resolution.