Product Walkthrough: Bitdefender AI Visibility and Control

What happened

A developer adds a coding assistant as an editor extension, and nothing shows up in the installed programs list. Tasked with controlling AI, an administrator often resorts to blocking well-known AI websites and taking enforcement action without knowing what is actually running.

A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed. Product Walkthrough: Bitdefender AI Visibility and Control  The Hacker News  Oct 13, 2026 Artificial Intelligence / Endpoint Security A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed.

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 outside. None of this reaches your software inventory. Bitdefender GravityZone AI Visibility and Control (AIVC) is the discovery and risk layer that answers the questions you have, first: Which AI software is present on your protected Windows endpoints, who is running it, and how much risk does each one carry.