Update torch requirement from <2.6,>=2.1.2 to >=2.1.2,<2.9

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Updates the requirements on torch to permit the latest version.

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Commits

• ba56102 Cherrypick: Add the RunLLM widget to the website (#159592)
• c525a02 [dynamo, docs] cherry pick torch.compile programming model docs into 2.8 (#15...
• a1cb3cc [Release Only] Remove nvshmem from list of preload libraries (#158925)
• c76b235 Move out super large one off foreach_copy test (#158880)
• 20a0e22 Revert "[Dynamo] Allow inlining into AO quantization modules (#152934)" (#158...
• 9167ac8 [MPS] Switch Cholesky decomp to column wise (#158237)
• 5534685 [MPS] Reimplement tri[ul] as Metal shaders (#158867)
• d19e08d Cherry pick PR 158746 (#158801)
• a6c044a [cherry-pick] Unify torch.tensor and torch.ops.aten.scalar_tensor behavior (#...
• 620ebd0 [Dynamo] Use proper sources for constructing dataclass defaults (#158689)
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