Drop fastapi pin — conflicts with gradio 5.29.1 (needs fastapi>=0.115.2)

Pin Gradio 5.29.1 (last known-good HF Space version) + fastapi 0.112.2

Bump to Gradio 6.18 — drops dependency pins; current stable HF Spaces line

Roll back to Gradio 4.44.1 to match local dev

Pin starlette<0.40 — TemplateResponse signature

Re-add huggingface_hub<0.34 pin — gradio 5.0.x

Bump Gradio to 5.x and bind launch to

Pin huggingface_hub<0.34 — gradio 4.44 still

Initial commit — The Apprentice for Build Small