Read Searching for the Mahdi, by N. Lee Wood. The blurb on the cover had a comparison to Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, which after reading I can only assume was based on the fact that both are set in the near future and have computer networks. Also both are books. It's not a bad book, but it's got a strange split personality: part lecture/diatribe about Middle Eastern culture via a fictitious Mideast country that sounds like it ought to be near Pakistan & India but is apparently near (but not next to) Israel (I still can't tell if the author is pro- or con-Islam); part first-person griping about how she (the narrator) is short and ugly (she gets the uber-sexy android in the end, and plastic surgery, so it's OK I guess?) I don't mind the description, but it really starts to come across as a serious psychological issue. Then again, if you made your fame disguised as a man, maybe having a hangup about your appearance is legit? I don't know.
There is an AI, but it's not really a character.
Have moved on to Maze of Stars, by John Brunner. Enjoying it more. Just realized that's an AI also. Maybe I should just read books with AIs in them.
Update: Read China Mountain Zhang and quite enjoyed it. SF, but minimal AI's. Also Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days. No AI's per se, but maximally enhanced humanity. Was going to read Half A King, but got two pages in and realized I'd already read it. Have gotten Half The World and Half A War to read instead.
Update 1/26: Half The World and Half A War were really good. I just started The 4th Annual Years Best Science Fiction, but the first two stories are really familiar. Not sure if they've been collected elsewhere, or I've read this before. :/