Testing the Addition of an Anti-cancer Drug, SNDX-5613, to the Standard Chemotherapy Treatment (Daunorubicin and Cytarabine) for Newly Diagnosed Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia That Has Changes in NPM1 or MLL/KMT2A Gene

Inclusion Criteria: * Induction therapy: Patients ages 18-75 years at time of diagnosis with NPM1-mutated/FLT3-ITD wildtype and NPM1-mutated/FLT3-TKD wildtype or MLL (KMT2A) rearranged untreated AML and who are candidates for intensive induction chemotherapy * Because no dosing or adverse event data are currently available on the use of SNDX-5613 in combination with daunorubicin and cytarabine in patients \< 18 years of age, children are excluded from this study * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status =\< 2 (Karnofsky \>= 60%) * Total bilirubin =\< 2 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN), except for patients with Gilbert's syndrome * Aspartate aminotransferase (AST)(serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase \[SGOT\])/alanine aminotransferase (ALT)(serum glutamic pyruvate transaminase \[SGPT\]) =\< 3 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN) * Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) \>= 60 mL/min/1.73 m\^2 (via the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology \[CKD-EPI\] glomerular filtration rate estimation) * Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients on effective anti-retroviral therapy with undetectable viral load within 6 months are eligible for this trial * For patients with evidence of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, the HBV viral load must be undetectable on suppressive therapy, if indicated * Patients with a history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection must have been treated and cured. For patients with HCV infection who are currentl…