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Man Questions Dubious DARPA-Linked Robotics Invite via Telegram

4/24/2026

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Will received a laptop message inviting him to test an open-source federated-learning robotics project via a Telegram bot.
The message referenced his AI Lab newsletter, highlighted decentralized machine learning, robotics, the OpenClaw project, and claimed the team included DARPA researchers.
Will could find no information on the alleged DARPA project and asked why the collaboration required a Telegram bot.

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Story summary

Will received a laptop message inviting him to test an open-source federated-learning robotics project via a Telegram bot.
The message referenced his AI Lab newsletter, highlighted decentralized machine learning, robotics, the OpenClaw project, and claimed the team included DARPA researchers.
Will could find no information on the alleged DARPA project and asked why the collaboration required a Telegram bot.