Each week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry.

Hello, my name is Cade Metz. I cover artificial intelligence, self-driving cars and other “emerging technologies” for The New York Times. Today I’m here to give you the lowdown on the week’s tech news.

It was another black eye for the giants of the industry. On Wednesday, Google agreed to pay a record $170 million fine. Regulators said YouTube, the company’s enormously popular video site, had illegally collected personal information from children without the consent of their parents and used it to make millions of dollars from targeted ads.

Natasha Singer and Kate Conger reported in The Times that Google would pay $136 million to the Federal Trade Commission and $34 million to New York after a joint investigation found that YouTube had violated the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, known as COPPA.