diff --git a/ultralytics/__init__.py b/ultralytics/__init__.py
index 5be255eb..a85ed8ee 100644
--- a/ultralytics/__init__.py
+++ b/ultralytics/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Ultralytics YOLO 🚀, AGPL-3.0 license
 
-__version__ = "8.2.40"
+__version__ = "8.2.41"
 
 import os
 
diff --git a/ultralytics/hub/session.py b/ultralytics/hub/session.py
index 369df744..41fe8c6d 100644
--- a/ultralytics/hub/session.py
+++ b/ultralytics/hub/session.py
@@ -71,7 +71,11 @@ class HUBTrainingSession:
         """Class method to create an authenticated HUBTrainingSession or return None."""
         try:
             session = cls(identifier)
-            assert session.client.authenticated, "HUB not authenticated"
+            if not session.client.authenticated:
+                if identifier.startswith(f"{HUB_WEB_ROOT}/models/"):
+                    LOGGER.warning(f"{PREFIX}WARNING ⚠️ Login to Ultralytics HUB with 'yolo hub login API_KEY'.")
+                    exit()
+                return None
             if args and not identifier.startswith(f"{HUB_WEB_ROOT}/models/"):  # not a HUB model URL
                 session.create_model(args)
                 assert session.model.id, "HUB model not loaded correctly"
diff --git a/ultralytics/utils/downloads.py b/ultralytics/utils/downloads.py
index 757f7e50..ab7ffa08 100644
--- a/ultralytics/utils/downloads.py
+++ b/ultralytics/utils/downloads.py
@@ -168,13 +168,15 @@ def unzip_file(file, path=None, exclude=(".DS_Store", "__MACOSX"), exist_ok=Fals
         files = [f for f in zipObj.namelist() if all(x not in f for x in exclude)]
         top_level_dirs = {Path(f).parts[0] for f in files}
 
-        if len(top_level_dirs) > 1 or (len(files) > 1 and not files[0].endswith("/")):
-            # Zip has multiple files at top level
-            path = extract_path = Path(path) / Path(file).stem  # i.e. ../datasets/coco8
-        else:
+        # Decide to unzip directly or unzip into a directory
+        unzip_as_dir = len(top_level_dirs) == 1  # (len(files) > 1 and not files[0].endswith("/"))
+        if unzip_as_dir:
             # Zip has 1 top-level directory
             extract_path = path  # i.e. ../datasets
-            path = Path(path) / list(top_level_dirs)[0]  # i.e. ../datasets/coco8
+            path = Path(path) / list(top_level_dirs)[0]  # i.e. extract coco8/ dir to ../datasets/
+        else:
+            # Zip has multiple files at top level
+            path = extract_path = Path(path) / Path(file).stem  # i.e. extract multiple files to ../datasets/coco8/
 
         # Check if destination directory already exists and contains files
         if path.exists() and any(path.iterdir()) and not exist_ok: