The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) earlier this month rolled out TalentCapital.AI , a robust workforce development initiative that uses an AI-powered platform to connect displaced federal employees with current openings in the D.C. region.

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COG executive director Clark Mercer told WTOP that the platform is gaining traction.

“We’ve got over 32,000 unique users — that’s not repeat visitors,” Mercer said. “Every day we have around 3,000 active users, which is someone who is interacting with ‘Celeste,’ the AI agen

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