
News|Videos|October 2, 2026
PharmTech AI Pulse Check: Episode 2 - Shadow AI, Trade Secrets, the API Race
PharmTech AI Pulse Check episode 2 covers AI data governance, API-gated journals, watermarking limits, and why attribution beats detection in GxP.
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In the second episode of PharmTech's new biweekly video series, “PharmTech AI Pulse Check,” host Chris Cole, associate editorial director, PharmTech, sits down with three expert co-hosts—Richard Jaenisch, Open Biopharma Research and Training Institute, Florin Muraru, independent regulatory affairs advisor, and Gourav Pandey, R&D quality lead, Takeda—to unpack three fast-moving flashpoints in pharma AI: data governance, the shift toward API-gated scientific literature, and the limits of AI-content detection.
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