GALWAY, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 2, 2025--
Siren, the all-in-one investigation company, today announced a strategic investment from Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the company behind Elasticsearch. The investment deepens a decade-long partnership between the two companies and accelerates development of Siren’s AI-driven platform, including Siren’s newly launched K9 AI Companion, used by national security, law enforcement, and financial crime agencies worldwide.
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The partnership combines the Elasticsearch Platform, which delivers real-time search, retrieval and anomaly detection across structured, unstructured, and streaming data, with Siren’s patented investigative intelligence technology, which fuses data from multiple sources into explainable, auditable insights. Through the partnership, the companies provide governments and organisations with an open, sovereign, and transparent alternative to closed proprietary systems. Additionally, the collaboration enables analysts to move seamlessly from signal detection to actionable insights, accelerating case resolution from days to hours and improving cross-agency collaboration.
A Unified Solution for New Threats
National security and law enforcement agencies face increasingly sophisticated and blended threats such as cybercrime and terrorism, as well as human trafficking and on-the-ground warfare. The Siren-Elastic combination enables organizations to detect, connect, and act on intelligence faster and with greater clarity.
“This strategic investment reflects more than a decade of proven collaboration with Elastic,” said John Randles, CEO at Siren. “Together, we’re delivering unified intelligence, real-time search and deep investigation at a time when it’s never been more needed globally.”
“Our long-standing partnership with Siren demonstrates how blending search and AI technologies can provide national security and law enforcement with trusted, explainable solutions that help protect citizens and assets,” said Chris Townsend, Global Vice President, Public Sector at Elastic. “This investment underscores our commitment to building a trusted ecosystem of Search and AI partners addressing mission-critical use cases.”
Patented Investigation Technology
At the core of Siren’s innovation is a unique and patented search and retrieval system built specifically for knowledge graphs. Siren enables real-time, explainable searches across massive, complex datasets, extracting only the most relevant entities and relationships for investigation. This feeds AI-driven analysis with precise, actionable subgraphs rather than overwhelming datasets.
Siren provides traceability, explainability, and auditability, ensuring analysts can uncover hidden connections, validate intelligence, and make decisions with confidence, and at scale. This capability is critical for government investigations, compliance and AI-driven intelligence workflows.
Renaud Delbru, Founder of Siren, added “Elastic's investment validates our architectural vision, that effective AI-driven investigation requires the federation of search, graph operations, and natural language understanding. Together, we provide the structured foundation that allows AI to augment rather than replace human investigative judgment."
Explosive Growth in AI-Powered National Security
The investment comes amid a surge in demand for AI-enhanced security solutions. The Agentic AI in Law Enforcement and Surveillance market is projected to reach USD 73.8 billion by 2034, according to Market.us. The broader Public Safety and Security sector is valued at USD 581.9 billion in 2025 and is forecast to reach USD 1.63 trillion by 2034, as reported by ResearchAndMarkets. Within national security, AI applications are forecast to reach USD 39.1 billion by 2033, according to Market.us, highlighting the growing need for platforms that combine real-time detection with deep investigative analytics, exactly the space where Siren and Elastic lead.
Transforming Compliance and Financial Crime Investigations
While designed for national security and law enforcement, the combined platform also benefits financial institutions combating fraud and money laundering. By pairing Elastic’s real-time monitoring with Siren’s deep analysis, compliance teams can identify suspicious activity faster, strengthen regulatory defenses, and create audit-ready workflows that scale.
About Siren
Siren is an all-in-one, AI-driven, investigation platform used by organizations to safeguard people, assets, and networks. Siren fuses data from open source, vendors and classified sources allowing investigators to analyze risks, threats and crimes for the national security, public safety, fraud and compliance, and cyber threat communities. Siren’s patented technology is uniquely search based providing analysts with easy-to-use search, analytics, visualization and reporting capabilities at Enterprise scale and volume. Learn more at www.siren.io.
Siren, the all-in-one investigation company, today announced a strategic investment from Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the company behind Elasticsearch.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was set to address the nation Wednesday night and offer an update on the war in Iran, his first prime-time speech since launching strikes alongside Israel more than a month ago.
The speech will offer Trump a wide audience to articulate clear objectives for the war that could attempt to reconcile weeks of changing goals and often contradictory messages about whether he’s winding down or ready to escalate military operations — even as Iran kept up its attacks on Israel and Persian Gulf neighbors and airstrikes pounded Tehran.
It comes amid rising oil prices, volatile financial markets and polling showing many Americans feel the U.S. military has gone too far in Iran — even as more American troops move into the region for a possible ground offensive. Trump opted not to deliver such an address closer to when the U.S. and Israel first launched attacks 4 1/2 weeks ago, and questions now remain about whether it is now too late for what he says to break through.
A White House official, who was not authorized to speak publicly ahead of the address and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the president will talk about the U.S. progress on achieving his goals in Iran and will reiterate his estimated timeline for concluding operations within two to three weeks.
In a social media post Wednesday morning, Trump maintained a belligerent tone, demanding that Iran stop blocking the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway vital to global oil supplies — or the U.S. would bomb the Islamic Republic “back to the Stone Ages.” The president has also said the U.S. “will not have anything to do with” ensuring the security of ships passing through Hormuz — an apparent backtrack from a previous threat to attack Iran’s power grid if it didn’t open the strait by April 6.
In another post, he claimed that “Iran’s New Regime President” wanted a ceasefire. It wasn’t clear to whom the U.S. president was referring since Iran still has the same president. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, called Trump’s claim “false and baseless,” according to a report on Iranian state television.
Speaking earlier to Al Jazeera, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi signaled Tehran’s willingness to keep fighting. “You cannot speak to the people of Iran in the language of threats and deadlines,” he said. “We do not set any deadline for defending ourselves.”
Hours before Trump’s address, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian posted a lengthy letter in English on his X account appealing to U.S. citizens and stressing that his country had pursued negotiations before the U.S. withdrew from that path. “Exactly which of the American people’s interests are truly being served by this war?” he wrote.
Since the war began on Feb. 28, Trump has offered shifting objectives and repeatedly has said it could be over soon while also threatening to widen the conflict. Thousands of additional U.S. troops are currently heading to the Middle East, and speculation abounds about why.
Trump has also threatened to attack Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub. And the U.S. could decide to send in military forces to secure Iran’s uranium stockpile — a complex and risky operation, fraught with radiation and chemical dangers, experts and former government officials say.
Adding to the confusion is what role Israel — which has been bombing Iran alongside the U.S. — might play in any of these scenarios.
Trump has been under growing pressure to end the war that has been pushing up the cost of gasoline, food and other goods. The price of Brent crude, the international standard, is up more than 40% since the start of the war.
The U.S. has presented Iran with a 15-point plan aimed at bringing about a ceasefire, including a demand for the strait to be reopened and for its nuclear program to be rolled back.
Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful. And in a report last week by Iranian state TV's English-language broadcaster, an anonymous official was quoted as saying Iran had its own demands to end the fighting, including retaining sovereignty over the strait.
In the interview with Al Jazeera, Araghchi acknowledged receiving direct messages from U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff. He insisted, however, that there were no direct negotiations and said Iran has no faith that talks with the U.S. could yield any results, saying “the trust level is at zero.”
He warned against any U.S. attempt to launch a ground offensive, saying “we are waiting for them.”
In a deal ostensibly to give diplomacy a chance, U.S. officials have given “clear assurances” that Araghchi and Iran's Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf won't be targeted, according to three officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they're not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
A cruise missile slammed into an oil tanker off Qatar’s coast Wednesday, the Defense Ministry said. The crew was evacuated and no casualties were reported. A Kuwaiti oil tanker came under attack off Dubai the day before, one of more than 20 ships attacked by Iran during the war.
In the United Arab Emirates, a person was killed when he was hit by debris from an intercepted drone in Fujairah, one of the country’s seven emirates.
In Kuwait, the state-run KUNA news agency said a drone hit a fuel tank at Kuwait International Airport, sparking a large fire.
Jordan’s military said it intercepted a ballistic missile and two drones fired from Iran in the last 24 hours. No casualties were reported. Two drones were also intercepted in Saudi Arabia.
Very early on Thursday, Israel’s military said Iran had launched missiles at the country, the first time of the day.
In Lebanon, at least five people were killed in an Israeli strike on a Beirut neighborhood.
Israel invaded southern Lebanon after the Iran-linked Hezbollah militant group began launching missiles into northern Israel days after the outbreak of the war.
More than 1,200 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than 1 million displaced, according to authorities. Ten Israeli soldiers have also died there.
In Iran, authorities say more than 1,900 people have been killed, while 19 have been reported dead in Israel. More than two dozen people have died in Gulf states and the occupied West Bank, while 13 U.S. service members have been killed.
Grambell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Rising reported from Bangkok. Associated Press writers Giovanna Dell’Orto in Miami, Farnoush Amiri in New York and Samy Magdy in Cairo contributed to this report.
A young girl is comforted by her father and Israeli soldiers as they take cover in a bomb shelter during air raid sirens warning of incoming Iranian missile strikes in Bnei Brak, Israel, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
People inspect the site of an Israeli strike amid debris and damaged vehicles in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
A man feeds stray cats in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
The Indian flagged LPG carrier Jag Vasant transporting liquefied petroleum gas, is seen at the Mumbai Port in Mumbai, India, after it arrived clearing the Strait of Hormuz, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Firefighters and rescue workers work at the site of Israeli airstrikes, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A firefighter extinguishes a car at the site of Israeli airstrikes, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Israel's rescue teams and residents take shelter as sirens sounds next to a site struck by an Iranian missile in Bnei Brak, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
A police vehicle is seen through a shattered windshield at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Two men ride scooters past charred debris at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
