OpenAI Codex July 27: Fourth Outage in Four Days Throws 503 biscuit_baker_service_me_circuit_open, Codex CLI 0.145.0 /import Migrates Cursor and Claude Code Settings, ChatGPT Voice Now Drives Codex Agents
- OpenAI closed the week firefighting: on July 25 ChatGPT, the API and Codex CLI went down with 503 biscuit_baker_service_me_circuit_open errors, the fourth incident in four days.
- In between outages, the reveal OpenAI engineers teased for July 24 landed as ChatGPT Voice on the desktop app, powered by GPT-Live, which can now drive Codex agents hands-free as Codex passes 8 million users.
- Codex CLI v0.145.0 (July 21) stabilizes multi-agent V2, adds audio inputs and Bedrock login, and ships /import, a one-command migration of Cursor and Claude Code settings.
- Independent benchmarks published July 25 show GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra taking Terminal-Bench at 91.9% while Claude Opus 5 wins SWE-bench Pro 79.2% to 64.6%.