China changes stock market rules weeks before DeepSeek filed to list: Is that a coincidence?

China revised stock market listing rules three weeks before AI startup DeepSeek filed for a mainland IPO, raising questions about regulatory timing. DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based artificial intelligence developer, sought to go public under the new framework.

Just three weeks before the Hangzhou-based AI developer DeepSeek was preparing to file for a mainland listing, the…