Balaji Krishnamurthy
Chief Financial Officer at Uber, responsible for financial strategy, capital allocation, accounting, tax, treasury, and investor relations. He previously led finance for Uber’s Mobility and Delivery businesses and its investor relations team, and he serves on the board of Waabi, an AI-first autonomous driving company.
AMD’s Forecast Shows AI Demand Is Spreading Beyond GPUs
Bloomberg Technology framed AMD’s sharp rally as evidence that the AI infrastructure trade is widening beyond GPUs. Caroline Hyde, Ian King and RBC’s Srini Pajjuri said AMD’s forecast pointed to renewed demand for CPUs as AI workloads shift toward inference and agentic systems, even as Nvidia remains dominant in accelerators. The program extended that argument across Nvidia’s Corning deal, Microsoft’s power constraints and Apple’s outside-model plans: the AI boom is becoming a contest over compute, connectivity, energy and platform control.
Uber Says US Demand and Cost Discipline Can Offset Macro Pressure
Uber CFO Balaji Krishnamurthy told Bloomberg Tech that the company’s latest forecast reflects sustained demand from riders and travelers despite a more uncertain macro and geopolitical backdrop. He argued that Uber is pairing product expansion, including hotel bookings through Expedia and a larger Uber One base, with tighter operating discipline and AI-driven efficiency. Krishnamurthy framed the quarter as evidence that Uber can keep growing by widening its consumer and enterprise use cases while controlling costs.