Here's a nice collection of news articles for you, surprisingly AI focused desipite the diversity. What more could you want? Pure entertainment ;)

Salon has a series of two articles on Artificial Stupidity, Part 1 & Part 2. It looks at chatter bots, their evolution and the links with the Loebner Competition.

The Sydney Morning Herald discusses smart advertising again, as you'll soon be getting content specially taylored for you (already a practice on the web); Ads About to See You Coming.

VU Net reports of the UK using neural network techniques to detect and clamp down on illegal prescriptions and consultations -- NHS Builds Fraud Detection System.

BBC News features a new system by an american researcher which proposes to use self-organisation to automate the inter-communication between computers; Promise of Intelligent Networks.

ZD Net had a great article on Bayesian classification, with a surprisingly deep insight into the technique. Applications to text processing are discussed, among others; 18th Century Theory is New Force in Computing.

CS Monitor praises an MIT researcher for having applied collective intelligence techniques to robotics -- Engineer Earns Prize for Robot "Swarm" Research.