chinese artificialintelligence giant sensetime group inc is scrambling to keep its initial public offering alive according to a person familiar with the matter as the biden administration prepares to add the company to a blacklist that will ban american investors from buying its shares on friday the pricing of sensetime’s stock offering in hong kong did not take place as previously scheduled thwarting the company’s plans to go public in a week’s time on dec 17 companies going public in the city usually price their ipos one week before the shares start trading and investors who have placed orders do not wire the money until the price is set