diff --git a/.github/actions/compile-models/requirements.in b/.github/actions/compile-models/requirements.in
index f9cda43693..72f62b9be9 100644
--- a/.github/actions/compile-models/requirements.in
+++ b/.github/actions/compile-models/requirements.in
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
+# Basic
+setuptools>=83.0.0
 
 # Core
 transformers==5.14.1
diff --git a/.github/actions/compile-models/requirements.txt b/.github/actions/compile-models/requirements.txt
index 7cb2f9b985..a886b9eb75 100644
--- a/.github/actions/compile-models/requirements.txt
+++ b/.github/actions/compile-models/requirements.txt
@@ -924,7 +924,9 @@ xmltodict==0.14.2 \
     # via py3nvml
 
 # The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
-setuptools==80.1.0 \
-    --hash=sha256:2e308396e1d83de287ada2c2fd6e64286008fe6aca5008e0b6a8cb0e2c86eedd \
-    --hash=sha256:ea0e7655c05b74819f82e76e11a85b31779fee7c4969e82f72bab0664e8317e4
-    # via torch
+setuptools==83.0.0 \
+    --hash=sha256:025bccbbf0fa05b6192bc64ae1e7b16e001fd6d6d4d5de03c97b1c1ade523bef \
+    --hash=sha256:29b23c360f22f414dc7336bb39178cc7bcbf6021ed2733cde173f09dba19abb3
+    # via
+    #   -r .github/actions/compile-models/requirements.in
+    #   torch
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ubuntu_24.yml b/.github/workflows/ubuntu_24.yml
index 25b4cceb64..1f3b5a6a3e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ubuntu_24.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ubuntu_24.yml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
       build-cache: true
       build-cache-key-suffix: ${{ github.sha }}
       build-plugin: true
-      build-driver: false
+      build-driver: true
       build-cid: true
       run-unit-tests: false
       run-lit-tests: true
diff --git a/validation/linux_npu_driver_config.json b/validation/linux_npu_driver_config.json
index 8bd07cc4f9..f396c37257 100644
--- a/validation/linux_npu_driver_config.json
+++ b/validation/linux_npu_driver_config.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-    "intel": "81a0ceb5e4c57ea6802174a070fbdd2738d0a235"
+    "intel": "fd49947db934dc67dda6f4287cec2664a303df27"
 }