diff --git a/examples/gpt-4.1-company-researcher/requirements.txt b/examples/gpt-4.1-company-researcher/requirements.txt
index 01e4e9ff01..3478156590 100644
--- a/examples/gpt-4.1-company-researcher/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/gpt-4.1-company-researcher/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-python-dotenv==1.0.1
+python-dotenv==1.2.2
 requests==2.32.4
 serpapi-python==0.1.5
 openai==1.12.0