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2026-05-03
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Claude 4 Opus Launches, CSS Masonry is Here & Webflow Gets Dark Mode

Anthropic launches Claude 4 Opus with 200k context, CSS Masonry layout lands in Chrome stable, and Webflow adds native dark mode toggle support.

AI World


  • Claude 4 Opus launched — 200k context window, improved coding (scores 92% on HumanEval), and a new "Extended Thinking" mode for step-by-step reasoning.
  • Perplexity released Perplexity Pages — AI-generated long-form research documents with inline citations and export to PDF.
  • ElevenLabs launched real-time voice cloning that works with just 15 seconds of audio.

Webflow Updates


  • Webflow Dark Mode native support — add a dark mode toggle to any Webflow site using the new class-based theming system, no custom code needed.
  • Webflow Logic (workflow automation) now supports branching conditions and external API calls without Zapier.

Web Development


  • CSS Masonry Layout shipped in Chrome 124 stable — the grid-template-rows: masonry property is finally here without flags.
  • React Query v6 (TanStack Query) released with first-class React Server Component support and automatic background refetching.
  • Playwright 1.45 adds AI-powered element selector healing — broken selectors auto-repair when DOM structure changes.

General Tech


  • Stripe launched Stripe AI — natural language querying of your payment data, fraud analysis, and revenue forecasting.
  • Linear hit $100M ARR and announced "Linear AI" for automated issue creation from Slack threads and PRs.

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