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.

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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