AI & Power Grid Policy: Federal energy regulators are set to decide by end of June how costs for new AI data center grid upgrades get assigned—whether to existing power customers or the companies driving demand—an outcome that could shape household bills and the pace of AI buildouts. Security Tech & Governance: A bipartisan proposal would let some private owners of critical infrastructure use counter-drone systems, raising fresh questions about whether major AI data centers could deploy weapons under Homeland Security oversight. Virginia Higher Ed Finance: At U.Va.’s Board of Visitors retreat, President Scott Beardsley outlined how the university’s “academic” and “health system” engines generate about $7.1B annually, with the health system as a major revenue driver. Earth & Life Science: Virginia Tech researchers helped produce the first full evolutionary history of living millipede orders, tracing origins to nearly 460 million years ago—millipedes landing on land more than 80 million years before vertebrates. Marine Climate Research: A VIMS study finds marine heatwaves are longer and warmer than standard definitions capture, with “warm tails” before and after the official event affecting how much heat coastal ecosystems absorb. Public Health Policy (National): NIH awarded a nearly $4M grant to expand a primary-care model for prescribing medications for opioid use disorder across ~40 clinics in Ohio and West Virginia.