A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed.

A developer adds a coding assistant as an editor extension, and nothing shows up in the installed programs list.

Someone downloads a local model runtime, a program that runs models directly on the machine instead of sending data to an external service, because they were told not to send company data



Source: TheHackerNews
Source Link: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/product-walkthrough-bitdefender-ai.html